Quasicrystals from the edge: extreme environments, impact craters and the quest in other celestial bodies.

Quasicrystals, materials with long-range order but no periodicity, were first discovered in nature within the Khatyrka meteorite, a CV3 carbonaceous chondrite. Their occurrence demonstrated that hypervelocity impacts can generate quasiperiodic phases…

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