Quasicrystals [Hardcover]

This book is aimed at researchers who are working in a field of quasicrystals to provide a reference to recent developments and ideas in the field and also at graduate students, who intend to study quasicrystals, to provide introduction of ideas. Topics in this book cover an entire field of quasicrystals, both experimental and theoretical, including new developments: the state of the art in quasicrystallography, new families of quasicrystals, phasons in aperiodic solids, ab initio studies on stability mechanism, quantum transport phenomena, elastic/plastic properties and surface of quasicrystals.

? Comprehensive reviews by experts in the field
? Complete reference of original papers and new topics
? Intelligible introduction of quasicrystals by expertsChapter 1. Introduction to Quasicrystals (Takeo Fujiwara)
Chapter 2. Recent Developments of Quasicrystallography (Akiji Yamamoto)
Chapter 3. New Group of Icosohedral
Chapter 4. New Family of Cd-based Quasicrystals and Cluster Structures (An-Pang Tsai, and Cesar Pay Gomez)
Chapter 5. Phason Modes in Aperiodic Crystals (M. de Boissieu, R. Currat, and S. Francoulual)
Chapter 6. Electronic Structures and Stability Mechanisms of Quasicrystals (Yasushi Ishii, and Takeo Fujiwara)
Chapter 7. Quantum Transport in Quasicrystals and Complex Metallic Alloys (Didier Mayou, and Guy Trambly de Laissardiere)
Chapter 8. Elastic and Plasic Properties of Quasicrystals (S. Takeuchi, and K. Edagawa)
Chapter 9. Ab-initio Studies of Quasicrystalline Surfaces (M. Krajci, and J. Hafner)Discovery of quasicrystals? was one of the most exciting innovations in science of the 20th century because it had been believed since the 19th century that the five-fold symmetry can never exist in equilibrium condensed phases. In the last two decades, it has been recognized that quasicrystal is not unusual but one of the universalS;