Meteoritic minerals and their origins

AE Rubin, C Ma - Geochemistry, 2017 - Elsevier
About 435 mineral species have been identified in meteorites including native elements,
metals and metallic alloys, carbides, nitrides and oxynitrides, phosphides, silicides, sulfides …

Natural and experimental high-pressure, shock-produced terrestrial and extraterrestrial materials

M Miyahara, N Tomioka, L Bindi - Progress in Earth and Planetary Science, 2021 - Springer
Hypervelocity impacts are among the fundamental phenomena occurring during the
evolution of the solar system and are characterized by instantaneous ultrahigh pressure and …

Quasicrystals predicted and discovered by machine learning

C Liu, K Kitahara, A Ishikawa, T Hiroto, A Singh… - Physical Review …, 2023 - APS
Quasicrystals represent a class of ordered materials that have diffraction symmetry forbidden
in periodic crystals. Since the first discovery of quasicrystals in 1984, approximately 100 …

Accidental synthesis of a previously unknown quasicrystal in the first atomic bomb test

L Bindi, W Kolb, GN Eby, PD Asimow… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
The first test explosion of a nuclear bomb, the Trinity test of 16 July 1945, resulted in the
fusion of surrounding sand, the test tower, and copper transmission lines into a glassy …

[BOOK][B] Quasicrystals: fundamentals and applications

E Maciá-Barber - 2020 - books.google.com
This book provides an interdisciplinary guide to quasicrystals, the 2011 Nobel Prize in
Chemistry winning topic, by presenting an up-to-date and detailed introduction to the many …

Quasicrystal synthesis by shock compression

J Hu, PD Asimow, C Ma, PJ Steinhardt… - Communications …, 2024 - nature.com
Quasicrystals are of interest because of their unique nonperiodic structures and physical
properties. Motivated by naturally occurring icosahedral AlCuFe-and decagonal AlNiFe …

Shock synthesis of quasicrystals with implications for their origin in asteroid collisions

PD Asimow, C Lin, L Bindi, C Ma… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - National Acad Sciences
We designed a plate impact shock recovery experiment to simulate the starting materials
and shock conditions associated with the only known natural quasicrystals, in the Khatyrka …

CNMNC guidelines for the nomenclature of polymorphs and polysomes

F Hatert, SJ Mills, M Pasero, R Miyawaki… - Mineralogical …, 2023 - cambridge.org
New guidelines for the nomenclature of polymorphs and polysomes have been approved by
the the Commission on New Minerals, Nomenclature and Classification of the International …

Collisions in outer space produced an icosahedral phase in the Khatyrka meteorite never observed previously in the laboratory

L Bindi, C Lin, C Ma, PJ Steinhardt - Scientific Reports, 2016 - nature.com
We report the first occurrence of an icosahedral quasicrystal with composition Al62. 0 (8)
Cu31. 2 (8) Fe6. 8 (4), outside the measured equilibrium stability field at standard pressure …

Alloy quasicrystals: Perspectives and some open questions at forty years

E Maciá - Symmetry, 2023 - mdpi.com
Four decades have elapsed since the first quasiperiodic crystal was discovered in the Al–Mn
alloy system, and much progress has been made during this time on the science of …