Precipitation of binary quasicrystals along dislocations

Quasicrystal precipitation in alloys should be favored at dislocations, which break crystal symmetry, but almost all precipitates at dislocations are periodic. Here, the authors show rare quasicrystal formation along dislocations in a magnesium zinc alloy with atomic resolution.

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Main Authors: Zhiqing Yang, Lifeng Zhang, Matthew F. Chisholm, Xinzhe Zhou, Hengqiang Ye, Stephen J. Pennycook
Format: article
Language:EN
Published: Nature Portfolio 2018
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/5e3f6ff2adde4fcc84a43da50f32d07f
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