A naturally occurring Al-Cu-Fe-Si quasicrystal in a micrometeorite from southern ItalyOPEN ACCESS
Giovanna Agrosì, Paola Manzari, Daniela Mele, Gioacchino Tempesta, Floriana Rizzo, Tiziano Catelani & Luca Bindi Communications Earth & Environment, Volume 5, Article number: 67 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “Quasicrystals, solids with rotational symmetries forbidden…
Al-Cu-Fe alloys in the solar system: Going inside a Khatyrka-like micrometeorite (KT01) from the Nubian desert, SudanOPEN ACCESS
Chi Ma, Jinping Hu, Martin D. Suttle, Yunbin Guan, Thomas G. Sharp, Paul D. Asimow, Paul J. Steinhardt, Luca Bindi MAPS Version of Record online: 25 October 2023 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “A recently…
Trace Element Conundrum of Natural QuasicrystalsOPEN ACCESS
Simone Tommasini, Luca Bindi, Maurizio Petrelli, Paul D. Asimow, and Paul J. Steinhardt ACS Earth Space Chem.Publication Date:February 25, 2021 LINK (OPEN ACCESS)PDF (OPEN ACCESS)Supporting information (Download) “We report laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass…
Are quasicrystals really so rare in the Universe?
Luca Bindi, Vladimir E. Dmitrienko, Paul J. Steinhardt American Mineralogist, Volume 105, Number 8, 1121–11251 August 2020 LINK “Until 2009, the only known quasicrystals were synthetic, formed in the laboratory under highly controlled conditions. Conceivably,…
A unique CO-like micrometeorite hosting an exotic Al-Cu-Fe-bearing assemblage – close affinities with the Khatyrka meteoriteOPEN ACCESS
M. D. Suttle, K. Twegar, J. Nava, R. Spiess, J. Spratt, F. Campanale & L. Folco Scientific Reports, volume 9, Article number: 12426 (2019) LINK (OPEN ACCESS) PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “We report the discovery of…
Previously unknown quasicrystal periodic approximant found in spaceOPEN ACCESS
Luca Bindi, Joyce Pham & Paul J. Steinhardt Scientific Reports volume 8, Article number: 16271 (2018) Published: 02 November 2018 LINK (OPEN ACCESS) PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “We report the discovery of Al34Ni9Fe2, the first natural…
Cosmic History and a Candidate Parent Asteroid for the Quasicrystal-bearing Meteorite KhatyrkaOPEN ACCESS
Matthias M.M. Meier, Luca Bindi, Philipp R. Heck, April I. Neander, Nicole H. Spring, My E. I. Riebe, Colin Maden, Heinrich Baur, Paul J. Steinhardt, Rainer Wieler, Henner Busemann Submitted to Earth and Planetary Science…
Evidence of cross-cutting and redox reaction in Khatyrka meteorite reveals metallic-Al minerals formed in outer spaceOPEN ACCESS
Chaney Lin, Lincoln S. Hollister, Glenn J. MacPherson, Luca Bindi, Chi Ma, Christopher L. Andronicos & Paul J. Steinhardt Scientific Reports 7, Article number: 1637 (2017) doi:10.1038/s41598-017-01445-5 LINK (OPEN ACCESS) “We report on a fragment…
Hollisterite (Al3Fe), kryachkoite (Al,Cu)6(Fe,Cu), and stolperite (AlCu): Three new minerals from the Khatyrka CV3 carbonaceous chondrite
Chi Ma, Chaney Lin, Luca Bindi, Paul J. Steinhardt American Mineralogist, v. 102, i. 3, p. 690-693, First Published on March 01, 2017 doi:10.2138/am-2017-5991 LINK “Our nanomineralogy investigation of the Khatyrka CV3 carbonaceous chondrite has…
Composition and origin of holotype Al-Cu-Zn minerals in relation to quasicrystals in the Khatyrka meteorite.
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Collisions in outer space produced an icosahedral phase in the Khatyrka meteorite never observed previously in the laboratoryOPEN ACCESS
Luca Bindi, Chaney Lin, Chi Ma & Paul J. Steinhardt Scientific Reports 6 Article number: 38117 (2016) doi:10.1038/srep38117 Published online: 08 December 2016 LINK (OPEN ACCESS) PDF (OPEN ACCESS) “We report the first occurrence of…
Interaction of aluminum projectiles with quartz sand in impact experiments: formation of khatyrkite (CuAl2) and reduction of SiO2 to Si
Christopher Hamann, Dieter Stöffler, Wolf Uwe Reimold Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 27 July 2016 doi:10.1016/j.gca.2016.07.018 LINK “We analyzed the interaction of spherical, 6.36-mm-diameter, Cu-bearing aluminum projectiles with quartz sand…
Discovery of New Al-Cu-Fe Minerals in the Khatyrka CV3 Meteorite
Ma C. Lin C. Bindi L. Steinhardt P. J. 79th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society (2016) #6017 LINK
Shock synthesis of quasicrystals with implications for their origin in asteroid collisions
Paul D. Asimow, Chaney Lin, Luca Bindi, Chi Ma, Oliver Tschauner, Lincoln S. Hollister, and Paul J. Steinhardt PNAS2016 ; published ahead of print June 13, 2016, doi:10.1073/pnas.1600321113 LINK “Significance The singular occurrence, to date,…
Quasicrystals at extreme conditions: The role of pressure in stabilizing icosahedral Al63Cu24Fe13 at high temperature
Vincenzo Stagno, Luca Bindi, Changyong Park, Sergey Tkachev, Vitali B. Prakapenka, H.-K. Mao, Russell J. Hemley, Paul J. Steinhardt and Yingwei Fei American Mineralogist doi: 10.2138/am-2015-5412 Volume 100 no. 11-12 p. 2412-2418 LINK “Icosahedrite, the…
Decagonite, Al71Ni24Fe5, a quasicrystal with decagonal symmetry from the Khatyrka CV3 carbonaceous chondrite
Luca Bindi, Nan Yao, Chaney Lin, Lincoln S. Hollister, Christopher L. Andronicos, Vadim V. Distler, Michael P. Eddy, Alexander Kostin, Valery Kryachko, Glenn J. MacPherson, William M. Steinhardt, Marina Yudovskaya and Paul J. Steinhardt American…
Shedding Light on the Origin of the Quasicrystal-Bearing Khatyrka Meteorite
Meier M. M. M. * Bindi L. Busemann H. Heck P. R. Isch Neander A. Maden C. Spring N. H. Steinhardt P. J. Wieler R. 78th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society (2015), abstract #5035…
Second natural quasicrystal ever found in ancient meteorite
Luca Bindi, Nan Yao, Chaney Lin, Lincoln S. Hollister, Christopher L. Andronicos, Vadim V. Distler, Michael P. Eddy, Alexander Kostin, Valery Kryachko, Glenn J. MacPherson, William M. Steinhardt, Marina Yudovskaya, Paul J. Steinhardt Scientific Reports,…
Steinhardtite, a new body-centered-cubic allotropic form of aluminum from the Khatyrka CV3 carbonaceous chondrite
Luca Bindi, Nan Yao, Chaney Lin, Lincoln S. Hollister, Glenn J. MacPherson, Gerald R. Poirier, Christopher L. , Andronicos Vadim V. Distler, Michael P. Eddy, Alexander Kostin, Valery Kryachko, William M. Steinhardt, and Marina Yudovskaya…
