Quasicrystals: A Primer (Monographs on the Physics and Chemistry of Materials, 48)

Janot, C.

ISBN 10: 0198513895 / ISBN 13: 9780198513896

Verlag: Clarendon Press, New York, NY, 1992

Beschreibung

320 pp. Tightly bound. Corners not bumped. Text is free of markings. No ownership markings. No dust jacket. PLEASE NOTE: Foxing to the page edges. This copy is smyth sewn. Smyth sewing is a method of bookbinding where groups of folded pages (referred to as signatures) are stitched together using binder thread. Each folded signature is sewn together individually with multiple stitches and then joined with other signatures to create the complete book block. This is the traditional and best method of bookbinding.

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Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Quasicrystals: A Primer (Monographs on the Physics and Chemistry of Materials, 48)
• Verlag: Clarendon Press, New York, NY
• Erscheinungsjahr: 1992
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0198513895
• ISBN-13: 9780198513896
• Einband: Hardcover
• Auflage: 1st Edition
• Zustand: Good
• Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Dust Jacket

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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.