Schematic illustration of the rare earth arrangement and ferromagnetism of the icosahedral quasicrystal (IMAGE)

Tokyo University of Science

Schematic illustration of the rare earth arrangement and ferromagnetism of the icosahedral quasicrystal

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Icosahedral quasicrystals (i QCs)—which are solids possessing a special geometric structure and long-range order with crystallographically forbidden symmetries, but no periodicity—show interesting physical and magnetic properties

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Professor Ryuji Tamura from Tokyo University of Science

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