Quasicrystals: A Primer (Monographs on the Physics and Chemistry of Materials)

Janot, C.

ISBN 10: 0198513895 / ISBN 13: 9780198513896

Verlag: Clarendon Press, 1992

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Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Quasicrystals: A Primer (Monographs on the Physics and Chemistry of Materials)
• Verlag: Clarendon Press
• Erscheinungsjahr: 1992
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0198513895
• ISBN-13: 9780198513896
• Einband: hardcover
• Zustand: Good

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Inhaltsangabe

In 1984 physicists discovered a monster in the world of crystallography, a structure that appeared to contain five-fold symmetry axes, which cannot exist in strictly periodic structures. Such quasi-periodic structures became known as quasicrystals. A previously formulated theory in terms of higher dimensional space groups was applied to them and new alloy phases were prepared which exhibited the properties expected from this model more closely. Thus many of the early controversies were dissolved.

This primer provides a descriptive approach to the subject for those coming to it for the first time. The various practical, experimental, and theoretical topics are dealt with in an accessible style. The book is completed by problem sets and there is a computer program that generates a Penrose lattice.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Charlotte y Peter Fiell son dos autoridades en historia, teoría y crítica del diseño y han escrito más de sesenta libros sobre la materia, muchos de los cuales se han convertido en éxitos de ventas. También han impartido conferencias y cursos como profesores invitados, han comisariado exposiciones y asesorado a fabricantes, museos, salas de subastas y grandes coleccionistas privados de todo el mundo. Los Fiell han escrito numerosos libros para TASCHEN, entre los que se incluyen 1000 Chairs, Diseño del siglo XX, El diseño industrial de la A a la Z, Scandinavian Design y Diseño del siglo XXI.