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Navigating Classical and Nonclassical Realms of Nucleation and Crystallization

Small, Volume 22, Issue 50, 7 September 2026.
Classical nucleation and growth theories have long been foundational, yet recent nonclassical concepts have challenged and refined our understanding of solid‐state genesis. This paradigm shift introduced new, often ambiguous vocabulary. Here, we clarify key concepts, correct common misconceptions, and provide a terminological field guide across systems,
Stephan E. Wolf, Peter G. Vekilov
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Gapless superconductivity and its real-space topology in quasicrystals

Physical Review Research
We study superconductivity in Ammann-Beenker quasicrystals under magnetic field. By assuming an intrinsic s-wave pairing interaction and solving for mean-field equations self-consistently, we find gapless superconductivity in the quasicrystals at and ...
Kazuma Saito, Masahiro Hori, Ryo Okugawa, K. Tanaka, Takami Tohyama   +4 more
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Forming quasicrystals by monodisperse soft core particles

Nature Communications, 2017
Quasicrystals with structural symmetries forbidden in crystals have been found in alloys or mono-component systems composed of anisotropic units. Zu et al.
Mengjie Zu, Peng Tan, Ning Xu
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One million scans later: the evolution of the I16 material and magnetism beamline at Diamond Light Source

Journal of Synchrotron Radiation, Volume 33, Issue 5, Page 1575-1588, September 2026.
Beamline I16 at Diamond Light Source is a versatile X‐ray scattering instrument that combines tunable X‐ray energy and polarization, flexible diffraction geometries, and advanced sample environments for studies of electronic, magnetic, and structural phenomena.Here, we review the capabilities of beamline I16 at Diamond Light Source after nearly 20 ...
Aly H. Abdeldaim, Rebecca Scatena, James Hawkins, Gareth Nisbet, Daniel G. Porter, Graeme Barlow, Andy Marshall, Brian Nutter, Guillaume Beutier, Stephen P. Collins, Alessandro Bombardi   +10 more
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Designing a minimal Landau model to stabilize desired quasicrystals

Physical Review Research
Interparticle interactions with multiple length scales play a pivotal role in the formation and stability of quasicrystals. Choosing a minimal set of length scales to stabilize a given quasicrystal is a challenging problem.
Wei Si, Shifeng Li, Pingwen Zhang, An-Chang Shi, Kai Jiang   +4 more
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The first discovery of a shocked, metasomatised CV3 chondrule‐fragment in a (Al,Cu)‐bearing micrometeorite

Meteoritics &Planetary Science, Volume 61, Issue 9, Page 2269-2283, September 2026.
Abstract We report the discovery of the second (Al,Cu)‐alloy–bearing micrometeorite, FB‐A2, recovered from Mount Gariglione (southern Italy), representing the sixth such occurrence worldwide. Although chondritic in nature, FB‐A2 differs markedly from previously described microspherules.
Giovanna Agrosì, Paola Manzari, Daniela Mele, Johan Villeneuve, Tiziano Catelani, Mattew J. Genge, Luca Bindi   +6 more
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Quantum Many-Body Topology of Quasicrystals

Physical Review X, 2021
In this paper, we characterize quasicrystalline interacting topological phases of matter, i.e., phases protected by some quasicrystalline structure. We show that the elasticity theory of quasicrystals, which accounts for both “phonon” and “phason” modes,
Dominic V. Else, Sheng-Jie Huang, Abhinav Prem, Andrey Gromov   +3 more
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Automatic Determination of Quasicrystalline Patterns from Microscopy Images

Advanced Intelligent Discovery, Volume 2, Issue 4, August 2026.
This work introduces a user‐friendly machine learning tool to automatically extract and visualize quasicrystalline tiling patterns from atomically resolved microscopy images. It uses feature clustering, nearest‐neighbor analysis, and support vector machines. The method is broadly applicable to various quasicrystalline systems and is released as part of
Tano Kim Kender, Marco Corrias, Cesare Franchini   +2 more
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Metallic-mean quasicrystals as aperiodic approximants of periodic crystals

Nature Communications, 2019
Quasicrystals differ from traditional incommensurate structures because they have non-crystallographic rotational symmetries. Here the authors introduce a scheme to produce metallic-mean quasicrystals in two dimensions with 6-fold rotational symmetry ...
Joichiro Nakakura, Primož Ziherl, Junichi Matsuzawa, Tomonari Dotera   +3 more
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What Earth Erases: Weathering Diversity of Mineral Phases Formed in a Highly Reduced Environment Hosted in Aubrites

Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, Volume 131, Issue 8, August 2026.
Abstract Meteorites serve as an exceptional source of insight into our planet and the Solar System. Most meteorite fragments were recovered hundreds to thousands of years after their fall, and therefore exhibit varying degrees of terrestrial weathering, which has altered or completely removed weather‐sensitive mineral phases.
M. Kołodziej, B. Pieterek, G. Zieliński, K. Załęski, E. Coy   +4 more
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