Aperiodic Crystals
Editors: Schmid, Siggi, Withers, Ray L., Lifshitz, Ron (Eds.)
- Contributions from the global leaders of international distinction
- Proceedings from the triennial aperiodic conferences
- Covers the whole field and state-of-the-art aspects of aperiodic crystals
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- About this book
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Aperiodic Crystals collects 37 selected papers from the scientific contributions presented at Aperiodic 2012 - the Seventh International Conference on Aperiodic Crystalsheld held in Cairns, Australia, 2-7 of September 2012.
The volume discusses state-of-the-art discoveries, new trends and applications of aperiodic crystals - including incommensurately modulated crystals, composite crystals, and quasicrystals - from a wide range of different perspectives. Starting with a general historical introduction to aperiodic crystals, the book proceeds to examine the complex mathematics of aperiodic long-range order, as well as the theoretical approaches aimed at understanding some of the unique properties and mechanisms underlying the existence of aperiodic crystals. The book then explores in detail such topics as complex metallic alloys, modulated structures, quasicrystals and their approximants, dynamics, disorder and defects in quasicrystals. It concludes with an analysis of quasicrystal surfaces and their properties.
By describing the latest research and the progress made on the structure determination of aperiodic crystals and the influence of this unique structure on their physical properties, this book represents a valuable resource to mathematicians, crystallographers, physicists, chemists, materials and surface scientists, and even architects and artists, interested in the fascinating nature of aperiodic crystals.
- About the authors
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Siegbert Schmid, School of Chemistry, The University of Sydney, Sydney NSW 2006, Australia
Ray L. Withers, Research School of Chemistry, The Australian National University,Canberra, A.C.T, 0200, Australia
Ron Lifshitz, School of Physics & Astronomy, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, ISRAEL
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Aperiodic Crystals
- Editors
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- Siggi Schmid
- Ray L. Withers
- Ron Lifshitz
- Copyright
- 2013
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Copyright Holder
- Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht
- eBook ISBN
- 978-94-007-6431-6
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-94-007-6431-6
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-94-007-6430-9
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-94-024-0065-6
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XV, 286
- Number of Illustrations
- 49 b/w illustrations, 95 illustrations in colour
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