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,…
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…
Composition and origin of holotype Al-Cu-Zn minerals in relation to quasicrystals in the Khatyrka meteorite.
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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,…
