Amorphous phases* of materials are characterized by the lack of translational or
orientational long range order. Although one might expect that the excess entropy due to …

The electronic properties of a large number of icosahedral-crystal systems have been
studied experimentally. These systems include alloys of the simple metals and those that …

Over the past several decades, a This book deals with the characterisation of the structure,
the structure determination and the study of the physical properties, especially dynamical …

Random tilings that comprise squares and equilateral triangles can model quasicrystals with
twelvefold symmetry. A (phason) elastic theory for such tilings is constructed, whose order …

This review volume provides the most up-to-date and authoritative description of research
on icosahedral solids, which has advanced rapidly since the discovery of these unique …

It took Dan Shechtman more than two years to get his discovery of an Al–Mn phase with
icosahedral diffraction symmetry and sharp Bragg reflections published. A paradigm shift …

This paper reports neutron-diffraction results on a single icosahedral quasicrystal of Al-Cu-
Fe. The basic properties of the structure have been extracted using six-dimensional (6D) …

A new model of the geometrical structure of icosahedral quasicrystals is discussed that is
based on icosahedral clusters connected by linkages (consistent with currently accepted …

The diffuse scattering located close to Bragg reflections has been measured on a single
grain of the AlPdMn icosahedral phase using elastic neutron scattering. This diffuse …

Since their discovery in 1984, several thousand papers have been published dealing with
various aspects of quasicrystals. Despite this flurry of activity, questions concerning the …