Book 27, Question 145
What is a quasicrystal?
These materials are called quasicrystals.
In 1982, scientist Dan Shechtman saw an atom pattern that looked orderly but did not repeat, which scientists had thought was impossible. Many doubted him, but other experts later confirmed it, and he won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2011. Scientists have even found natural ones in a meteorite. They show how nature can surprise us.