Chemists identify a single molecule that naturally tiles in nonrepeating patterns, which could help build materials with novel electronic properties.

Moiré quasicrystals exhibit many exotic phenomena. Here, the authors report an acoustic moiré quasicrystal that not only achieves a localization-delocalization transition, but also enables wave ...

What we discovered is that the projection includes not only the structure but also topological properties such as vortices.” Credit: Florian Sterl, Sterltech Optics Once thought impossible, ...

Operando analysis offers real-time data on what happens to devices at the atomic level As someone whose PhD was in solid-state materials chemistry, and who spent a lot of time characterising those ...

Paul Steinhardt. The key insight that enabled their explanation was that quasicrystals were, in fact, periodic—but in a higher dimension than the one in which they exist physically. Using this ...

Paul Steinhardt. The key insight that enabled their explanation was that quasicrystals were, in fact, periodic – but in a higher dimension than the one in which they exist physically.