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A Short Introduction to Quasicrystallography

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Since the discovery (in the fall of 1984) of icosahedral quasicrystals, their structure determination has motivated a great deal of work. However, these efforts have been up to now rather unsuccessful and no systematic approach to this question is known.

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Katz, A. (1992). A Short Introduction to Quasicrystallography. In: Waldschmidt, M., Moussa, P., Luck, JM., Itzykson, C. (eds) From Number Theory to Physics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-02838-4_11

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