Daniel Shechtman News Today

Quasicrystal are structures that were once thought impossible—and scientists just built the biggest one ever in the lab.

Amidst the destruction of the first atomic bomb test, mathematically perfect quasicrystals—a “forbidden” kind of matter whose existence had long been contested—rained down in the debris. Atomic bomb quasicrystals hold promise as an analytical tool for determining who was responsible for a nuclear terrorist attack and also raise important questions about the nature of all matter in the universe.

Did anything good come from the world’s first nuclear bomb test? Up until now most people would say “no,” but scientists studying the materials formed within that massive blast of heat may disagree after finding an unusual crystal that is brand new to science – because it’s ‘impossible’ in the world of crystals. Will it protect us against future nuclear blasts? “This article reports the discovery of a heretofore unknown icosahedral quasicrystal created by the detonation of the f...

A previously unknown “forbidden” quasicrystal was formed in the wake of the world’s first atomic bomb.

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