Novel kind of decagonal ordering in Al74Cr15Fe11

Haikun Ma; Zhanbing He; Hua Li; Tiantian Zhang; Shuang Zhang; Chuang Dong; Walter Steurer

doi:10.1038/s41467-020-20077-4

Nature Communications (Dec 2020)

Novel kind of decagonal ordering in Al74Cr15Fe11

Haikun Ma,
Zhanbing He,
Hua Li,
Tiantian Zhang,
Shuang Zhang,
Chuang Dong,
Walter Steurer

Affiliations

Haikun Ma: State Key Laboratory for Advanced Metals and Materials, University of Science and Technology Beijing
Zhanbing He: State Key Laboratory for Advanced Metals and Materials, University of Science and Technology Beijing
Hua Li: State Key Laboratory for Advanced Metals and Materials, University of Science and Technology Beijing
Tiantian Zhang: State Key Laboratory for Advanced Metals and Materials, University of Science and Technology Beijing
Shuang Zhang: School of Materials Science and Engineering, Dalian Jiaotong University
Chuang Dong: School of Materials Science and Engineering, Dalian Jiaotong University
Walter Steurer: Department of Materials, ETH Zurich

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-20077-4
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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The description of quasicrystal structures by only one repeating unit is desirable. Here the authors experimentally identify a quasi-unit-cell corresponding to a Lück decagon to describe the randomly ordered structure of a decagonal quasicrystalline phase.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
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