Useful quasicrystals / Jean-Marie Dubois.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dubois, Jean-Marie.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Quasicrystals.

Physics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (504 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Jersey ; London : World Scientific, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The aim of this book is to acquaint the reader with what the author regards as the most basic characteristics of quasicrystals structure, formation and stability, properties in relationship with the applications of quasicrystalline materials.Quasicrystals are fascinating substances that form a family of specific structures with strange physical and mechanical properties as compared to those of metallic alloys. This, on the one hand, is stimulating intensive research to understand the most basic properties of quasicrystals in the frame of a generalized crystallography. On the other hand

Contents:

FOREWORD THE GOLDEN MEAN AND THE KITCHEN; References; TABLE of CONTENTS; CHAPTER 1 WHAT TO KNOW TO START WITH; CHAPTER 2 STRANGE PHYSICAL PROPERTIES; CHAPTER 3 WHEN ATOMS MOVE AWAY; CHAPTER 4 PREPARATION AND MASS PRODUCTION; CHAPTER 5 THE RISE OF A DREAM; CONCLUSION THE DREAM IS NOT OVER YET; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786611880903

9781281880901

1281880906

9789812567888

9812567887

OCLC:

475965476