Abstract
The atomic-scale disorder of aperiodic crystals, and quasicrystals in particular, is inherently difficult to explore by experimental methods due to their complex atomic arrangements. Two advanced characterization techniques, a revived and an emerging one, offer direct experimental access even to such complex atomic structures: Diffuse Scattering and Atomic Resolution Holography. In this overview, we introduce their specific application to aperiodic crystals and discuss their merits and difficulties.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | e202300154 |
| Journal | Israel Journal of Chemistry |
| Volume | 64 |
| Issue number | 10-11 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Nov 2024 |
Funding
This manuscript has been authored by UT\u2010Battelle, LLC, under contract DE\u2010AC05\u201000OR22725 with the US Department of Energy (DOE). The US government retains and the publisher, by accepting the article for publication, acknowledges that the US government retains a nonexclusive, paid\u2010up, irrevocable, worldwide license to publish or reproduce the published form of this manuscript or allow others to do so, for US government purposes. DOE will provide public access to these results of federally sponsored research in accordance with the DOE Public Access Plan ( https://www.energy.gov/doe\u2010public\u2010access\u2010plan ). The authors are grateful to Tsunetomo Yamada and Hiroyuki Takakura, Alexei Bosak, Marc de Boissieu for the DS data provided of the sample d-AlNiRh. For many fruitful discussions on the topic, we are furthermore thankful to Ella Schmidt, Marc de Boissieu, Pawel Korecki, Koichi Hayashi, Koji Kimura, Naohisa Happo and Shinya Hosokawa. We gratefully acknowledge financial support by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas \u201CHypermaterials\u201D (20H05273 and 22H04595). The work by A.M. is supported by the DOE Office of Science. The work on the TRUMOF-1 was part of E.G.M.\u2019s PhD project done in the Goodwin group at the Inorganic chemistry laboratory in the University of Oxford and financed by the E.R.C. Grant 788144 and the Snell exhibition. The d-AlCoNi ARH experiments were performed at BM02 (ESRF) with proposal nos. 02\u201302-852 and HC-3434, and a supporting experiment at BL39XU (Spring-8) with 2021 A1312. The d-AlCoNi XAFS experiment was conducted at the Kyushu Synchrotron Light Research Center (Saga-LS) beamline BL11, exp. no. 2010116F. We gratefully acknowledge financial support by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Grant\u2010in\u2010Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas \u201CHypermaterials\u201D (20H05273 and 22H04595). The work by A.M. is supported by the DOE Office of Science. The work on the TRUMOF\u20101 was part of E.G.M.\u2019s PhD project done in the Goodwin group at the Inorganic chemistry laboratory in the University of Oxford and financed by the E.R.C. Grant 788144 and the Snell exhibition.
Keywords
- aperiodic crystals
- atomic disorder
- diffuse scattering
- local order
- x-ray holography