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

Janot, C.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0198517785 ISBN 13: 9780198517788

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1995

Synopsis

In 1984, physicists discovered a totally unexpected form of matter--a structure that appeared to contain five-fold symmetry axes, which cannot exist in strictly periodic structures--that became known as quasicrystals. In an effort to understand these structures, a theory that employed higher dimensional space groups was conceived, enabling the creation of new alloy phases that exhibited the properties expected from this model. Now in its second edition, Quasicrystals: A Primer offers an up-to-date and accessible introduction to the subject for students approaching it for the first time. Providing lively treatments of a range of practical, experimental, and theoretical topics, the book has been completely updated to reflect the latest advances in quasicrystal research and application. Helpful problem sets and a computer program that generates a Penrose lattice are included as well. Students and researchers in materials science, crystallography, and condensed matter physics will welcome this new edition of a trustworthy, user-friendly survey of an important topic in crystallography.

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About the Author

Professor Christian Janot, Institut Max von Laue-Paul Langevin, Avenue des Martyrs, B.P. 156, 38042 Grenoble, Cedex 9, France. Tel: +33 04 76 20 73 27. Fax: +33 04 76 48 39 06. Email: janot@ill.fr

Review

`the book deserves wide distribution among all solid state scientists because it is dealing with rather new matter not yet considered in conventional textbooks' P. Paufler, Cryst. Res. Technol. 31 1996

`Quasicrystals, Second Edition is an excellent, mathematical sophisticated primer to a new and very interesting state of matter.' Library of Science, November 1997

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0198517785
• ISBN 13: 9780198517788
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 426