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Materials science

a solid with long-range order but no repeating unit cell, showing symmetries such as fivefold rotation forbidden in ordinary crystals.

In materials science, quasicrystal refers to a solid with long-range order but no repeating unit cell, showing symmetries such as fivefold rotation forbidden in ordinary crystals. This meaning comes from Shechtman (1984) in Physical Review Letters.[1]

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References

Shechtman, D., Blech, I., Gratias, D., & Cahn, J. W. (1984). Metallic Phase with Long-Range Orientational Order and No Translational Symmetry. Physical Review Letters, 53(20), 1951-1953. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.53.1951

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