Atomic structure of the binary icosahedral Yb–Cd quasicrystal

IF 37.2 1区材料科学 Q1 CHEMISTRY, PHYSICAL

Nature Materials Pub Date : 2006-12-10 DOI:10.1038/nmat1799

Hiroyuki Takakura, Cesar Pay Gómez, Akiji Yamamoto, Marc De Boissieu, An Pang Tsai

引用次数: 297

Abstract

Icosahedral quasicrystals (i-QCs) are long-range ordered solids that show non-crystallographic symmetries such as five-fold rotations. Their detailed atomic structures are still far from completely understood, because most stable i-QCs form as ternary alloys suffering from chemical disorder. Here, we present the first detailed structure solution of i-YbCd5.7, one of the very few stable binary i-QCs, by means of X-ray structure determination. Three building units with unique atomic decorations arrange quasiperiodically and fill the space. These also serve as building units in the periodic approximant crystals. The structure is not only chemically feasible, but also provides a seamless structural understanding of the i-YbCd5.7 phase and its series of related i-QCs and approximant crystals, revealing hierarchic features that are of considerable physical interest.

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二元二十面体镱镉准晶体的原子结构

二十面体准晶体（i-QCs）是一种长程有序固体，表现出五倍旋转等非晶体学对称性。由于大多数稳定的二十面体准晶体都是以三元合金的形式形成的，因此它们的详细原子结构还远未被完全了解。在此，我们通过 X 射线结构测定，首次展示了极少数稳定的二元 i-QCs 之一 i-YbCd5.7 的详细结构解。三个具有独特原子装饰的构建单元准周期性地排列并填充了整个空间。这些单元也是周期性近似晶体的构建单元。该结构不仅在化学上可行，而且还提供了对 i-YbCd5.7 相及其一系列相关 i-QCs 和近似晶体的无缝结构理解，揭示了具有重大物理意义的层次特征。

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Nature Materials 工程技术-材料科学：综合

CiteScore

62.20

自引率

0.70%

发文量

221

审稿时长

3.2 months

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