UID:
almafu_9958127257602883
Format:
1 online resource (236 p.)
ISBN:
0-323-16230-4
Series Statement:
Aperiodicity and order ; v. 3
Content:
Extended Icosahedral Structures
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Front Cover; Extended Icosahedral Structures; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Contributors; Preface; Chapter 1. Quasi-Crystal Structure Models Related to Crystalline Structures; 1 Crystalline Structures Related to Quasicrystalline Structures; 2 Quasi-Crystalline Packings; 3 Conclusion; References; Chapter 2. The Icosahedral Glass Model; 1 Introduction and Historical Overview; 2 The Icosahedral Glass; 3 Other Icosahedral Glass Models; 4 High Resolution Electron Microscopy; 5 Facets in Icosahedral Glasses; 6 Concluding Remarks; References; Chapter 3. The Growth of Icosahedral Phase
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1 Introduction2 Structure and Linkage of Icosahedral Atomic Clusters; 3 Entropy, Phasons, and Growth; 4 Computer Simulations of the Growth of Icosahedral Phase; 5 Diffraction; 6 Conclusions; References; Chapter 4. Icosahedral and Decagonal Quasicrystals as Multiple Twins of Cubic Crystals; 1 Introduction; 2 Quasicrystals as Twinned Cubic Crystals; 3 The 820-Atom Primitive Cubic Structure; 4 Crystals with Icosahedral Coordination; 5 Analysis of the 5-Fold Electron-Diffraction Photographs; 6 X-Ray and Neutron Diffraction Powder Patterns
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7 Analysis of Single-Grain X-Ray Precession Photographs of Li3CuAl68 Evidence from High-Resolution Transmission Electron Micrographs; 9 Synthesis of the Quasicrystal and Icosatwin Theories; 10 The NiTi2 Evidence: A Third Class of Cubic Crystals Capable of Icosahedral Twinning; 11 Additional Evidence for Icosahedral Twinning of Cubic Crystals; 12 Conclusion; References; Chapter 5. Icosahedral Order, Curved Space and Quasicrystals; 1 Order and Disorder; 2 Curved Space Model; 3 Decreasing the Curvature: Disclinations; 4 The Structure Factor of Polytopes; References
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Chapter 6. Theory of Icosahedral Liquid Crystal Structures1 Introduction; 2 The Cholesteric Blue Phases; 3 Formulation of the Landau Theory of Cholesterics; 4 Calculation of the Free Energy of Icosahedral Structures; 5 Discussion; Acknowledgements; References; Index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-12-040603-9
Language:
English
