Innovative Study Connects Quasicrystals and Modulated Structures Using Aperiodic Approximants
For a long time, scientists believed that crystal structures were characterized by an ordered arrangement of atoms in a repeating lattice-like pattern, considered the most stable configuration. However, by the 1960s, advancements in crystallography revealed materials that did not fit this traditional model. These materials exhibit a non-periodic or non-repeating pattern and are known as aperiodi