Producing highly complicated materials. Nature does it better

L Bindi, M Nespolo, SV Krivovichev… - Reports on Progress …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Through the years, mineralogical studies have produced a tremendous amount of data on
the atomic arrangement and mineral properties. Quite often, structural analysis has led to …

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 …

Quasi-crystalline order in vibrating granular matter

A Plati, R Maire, E Fayen, F Boulogne, F Restagno… - Nature Physics, 2024 - nature.com
Quasi-crystals are aperiodic structures with crystallographic properties that are not
compatible with that of a single unit cell. Their discovery in a metallic alloy more than four …

Natural quasicrystal with decagonal symmetry

L Bindi, N Yao, C Lin, LS Hollister, CL Andronicos… - Scientific reports, 2015 - nature.com
We report the first occurrence of a natural quasicrystal with decagonal symmetry. The
quasicrystal, with composition Al71Ni24Fe5, was discovered in the Khatyrka meteorite, a …

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 …

Electrical discharge triggers quasicrystal formation in an eolian dune

L Bindi, MA Pasek, C Ma, J Hu… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
We report the discovery of a dodecagonal quasicrystal Mn72. 3Si15. 6Cr9. 7Al1. 8Ni0. 6—
composed of a periodic stacking of atomic planes with quasiperiodic translational order and …

[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 …

Thermodynamic phase diagram of two-dimensional bosons in a quasicrystal potential

Z Zhu, H Yao, L Sanchez-Palencia - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
Quantum simulation of quasicrystals in synthetic bosonic matter now paves the way for the
exploration of these intriguing systems in wide parameter ranges. Yet thermal fluctuations in …

Impacts into quartz sand: Crater formation, shock metamorphism, and ejecta distribution in laboratory experiments and numerical models

K Wünnemann, MH Zhu… - Meteoritics & Planetary …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
We investigated the ejection mechanics by a complementary approach of cratering
experiments, including the microscopic analysis of material sampled from these …

Evidence of both molecular cloud and fluid chemistry in Ryugu regolith

M Bose, RA Root, Y Guan, J Eaton, A Wittmann… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
The sulfur chemistry of (162173) Ryugu particles can be a powerful tracer of molecular cloud
chemistry and small body processes, but it has not been well explored. We report …