Wednesday, August 23, 2017

Engineering team images tiny quasicrystals as they form

08/23/2017 09:52 AM EDT

a transmission electron microscope image of a mesoporous silica nanoparticle, showing the tiling with triangles and squares

What makes quasicrystals so interesting? Their unusual structure. A Cornell University lab has joined scientists pursuing this relatively new area of study.


Full story at http://news.cornell.edu/stories/2017/08/wiesner-team-images-tiny-quasicrystals-they-form

Source
Cornell University


This is an NSF News From the Field item.


This email was sent using GovDelivery Communications Cloud on behalf of: National Science Foundation Update · 4201 Wilson Boulevard · Arlington, VA 22230 · 703-292-5111 GovDelivery logo

No comments:

Post a Comment