{"id":83617,"date":"2011-11-28T10:13:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-28T08:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technion.ac.il\/blog\/the-quasicrystal-caucus\/"},"modified":"2011-11-28T10:13:00","modified_gmt":"2011-11-28T08:13:00","slug":"the-quasicrystal-caucus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.technion.ac.il\/en\/blog\/the-quasicrystal-caucus\/","title":{"rendered":"The Quasicrystal Caucus"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u201cThe most<\/span>important<\/span>thing about the<\/span>quasicrystals is<\/span>their meaning<\/span>for fundamental<\/span>science. They have<\/span>rewritten the<\/span>first chapter in<\/span>the textbooks of<\/span>ordered matter.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

Prof. Sven Lidin, <\/span>Professor of Inorganic<\/span>Chemistry, Lund University. <\/span>Member of the Nobel <\/span>Committee for Chemistry<\/span><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n\n
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In the mid-1970s, mathematician <\/span>Prof. Roger Penrose<\/a>, of Oxford <\/span>University, created an aperiodic mosaic, <\/span>with a pattern that never repeats itself, <\/span>with just two different rhomboid tiles<\/span>
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The page in Dan Shechtman\u2019s lab logbook recording his April 8th, 1982, discovery.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n\n
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Meeting at the National Institute <\/span>of Standards and Technology <\/span>(NIST) in 1985 just months <\/span>after shaking the foundations <\/span>of materials science with <\/span>publication of his discovery of <\/span>quasicrystals, Dan Shechtman, <\/span>winner of the 2011 Nobel Prize <\/span>in Chemistry, discusses the <\/span>material\u2019s surprising atomic <\/span>structure with collaborators. From <\/span>left to right are Shechtman; Frank <\/a><\/span>Biancaniello<\/a>, NIST; Denis Gratias<\/a>, <\/span>National Science Research <\/span>Center, France; John Cahn<\/a>, NIST; <\/span>Leonid Bendersky<\/a>, Johns Hopkins<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>University (now at NIST); and<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>Robert Schaefer<\/a>, NIST.<\/span><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n


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How could quasicrystals<\/span>have evaded the community<\/span>of crystallographers for so<\/span>long? In addition to the vital<\/span>input of his collaborators,<\/span>says Shechtman, the<\/span>discovery required several<\/span>critical components. First,<\/span>it was necessary to make<\/span>esoteric, rather than useful,<\/span>rapidly cooled alloys.<\/span>Then a researcher would<\/span>have to study them with<\/span>a transmission electron<\/span>microscope, perform<\/span>numerous detailed analyses,<\/span>and finally face a fortress of<\/span>resistance to changing the<\/span>rules of understanding the<\/span>material world.<\/span><\/strong>
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A quasiperiodic crystal is a structure that is ordered <\/span>but not periodic. In quasicrystals, the symmetry is <\/span>broken: there are regular patterns in the structure <\/span>but the structure never repeats itself. A shifted copy <\/span>will never match exactly.<\/span>
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Back in the \u201980s when the new <\/span>class of matter was accepted <\/span>only by a few, it was dubbed<\/span>
\n\u201cShechtmanite,\u201d after the man <\/span>who led the field through <\/span>conception and infancy. The <\/span>name \u201cShechtmanite\u201d carried <\/span>the risk of humiliation if the <\/span>material turned out to be <\/span>\u201ctwinning\u201d (the intergrowth <\/span>of two separate crystals on a <\/span>shared lattice), as claimed by <\/span>Shechtman\u2019s opponents.<\/span><\/div>\n
Quasicrystal structure can <\/span>be understood through the <\/span>mathematical theory of tiling.<\/span>
\nInitially, however, Shechtman\u2019s <\/span>discovery was viewed with <\/span>skepticism. \u201cThe scandal of<\/span>
\npolywater was still in the air, and <\/span>I feared for my scientific and <\/span>academic career,\u201d says Shechtman.<\/span><\/div>\n
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(l-r) <\/span>John Werner Cahn, Dan Shechtman, Ilan Blech and Denis Gratias together on the<\/span>
occasion of an international congress on quasicrystals in France, 1995.<\/span>
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Shechtman returned to Technion, <\/span>where Dr. Ilan Blech<\/a> was the only <\/span>colleague who not only believed in <\/span>him but who agreed to cooperate <\/span>with him. Blech was able to decipher <\/span>Shechtman\u2019s experimental findings <\/span>and offered an explanation, known <\/span>as the Icosahedral Glass Model.<\/span>
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Together, the researchers wrote an <\/span>article that contained the model <\/span>and the experimental results, and <\/span>submitted it to the <\/span>Journal of Applied<\/span>Physics <\/span>in the summer of 1984. <\/span>The paper was rejected, resubmitted to <\/span>the journal <\/span>Metallurgical Transactions<\/span>, <\/span>and was published in 1985.<\/div>\n
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In November 1984, <\/span>Physical Review<\/span>Letters <\/span>published Shechtman\u2019s <\/span>discovery in a scientific paper coauthored <\/span>with three other scientists: <\/span>Ilan Blech (Israel), Denis Gratias <\/span>(France) and John Cahn (USA). <\/span>Wider acclaim followed, mainly from <\/span>physicists and mathematicians and <\/span>later from crystallographers.<\/span><\/div>\n

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Pioneering contributors to the <\/span>field of quasicrystals are Prof. Dov <\/a><\/span>Levine<\/a> of the Technion Faculty of <\/span>Physics and Prof. Paul Steinhardt<\/a> of <\/span>Princeton University. They made the<\/span>
\nconnection between a theoretical <\/span>tenfold symmetry model proposed by <\/span>Prof. Alan Mackay and Shechtman\u2019s <\/span>diffraction pattern, and developed <\/span>the mathematical model for the <\/span>structure of non-periodic icosahedral <\/span>phases found in metallic alloys. <\/span>Steinhardt and Levine published an <\/span>article in 1984 where they described <\/span>quasicrystals and their aperiodic <\/span>mosaics.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
Quasicrystals first got their name <\/span>in this article!<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n

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Dov Levine <\/span>(left) <\/span>with Paul Steinhardt <\/span>(right)\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n
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In August 1986, David R. Nelson <\/span>wrote in <\/span>Scientific American<\/span>, <\/span>\u201cShechtmanite quasicrystals are <\/span>no mere curiosity. The study of <\/span>quasicrystals has tied together two <\/span>existing branches of theory: the <\/span>theory of metallic glasses and the <\/span>mathematical theory of aperiodic <\/span>tilings. In doing so it has brought new <\/span>and powerful tools to bear on the <\/span>study of metallic alloys. Questions <\/span>about long- and short-range <\/span>icosahedral order should occupy <\/span>solid-state physicists and materials <\/span>scientists for some time to come.\u201d<\/span>
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Today, over 40 scientific books have <\/span>been dedicated to quasiperiodic <\/span>crystals, and the International <\/span>Union of Crystallography has <\/span>changed its basic definition of a <\/span>crystal, reducing it to the ability <\/span>to produce a clear-cut diffraction <\/span>pattern and acknowledging that <\/span>crystallographic order can be either <\/span>periodic or aperiodic.<\/span><\/div>\n

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