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Luca BINDI Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Università di Firenze, Via La Pira 4, I-50121 Firenze, Italy e-mail: [email protected] Quasicrystals are exotic materi- als with symmetries that were once thought to be impossible for matter. The first known ex- amples were synthesized in the laboratory over 30 years ago, but could Nature have beaten us to the punch? This talk will describe the search that took over a dozen years to answer this question, resulting in one of the strangest scientific stories you are ever likely to hear. Once upon a time in Kamchatka: The extraordinary search for natural quasicrystals
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Luca BINDIDipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Università di Firenze, Via La Pira 4, I-50121 Firenze, Italy
e-mail: [email protected]
Quasicrystals are exotic materi-
als with symmetries that were
once thought to be impossible
for matter. The first known ex-
amples were synthesized in the
laboratory over 30 years ago,
but could Nature have beaten
us to the punch? This talk will
describe the search that took
over a dozen years to answer
this question, resulting in one
of the strangest scientific stories
you are ever likely to hear.
Once upon a time in Kamchatka: The extraordinary search for natural quasicrystals