All of us break the rules from time to time — even crystals.”There are all sorts of rules about what crystals can do during phase transitions,” said Mark D. Hollingsworth, associate professor of chemistry at Kansas State University. “For a long time, scientists have assumed that the norm applied for all sorts of substances.But aperiodic materials — those that lack a regularly repeating structure — don’t necessarily work like this, Hollingsworth said.

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All of us break the rules from time to time — even crystals.”There are all sorts of rules about what crystals can do during phase transitions,” said Mark D. Hollingsworth, associate professor of chemistry at Kansas State University. “For a long time, scientists have assumed that the norm applied for all sorts of substances.But aperiodic materials — those that lack a regularly repeating structure — don’t necessarily work like this, Hollingsworth said.

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Filed under: IT / Internet / E-mail on January 6th, 2008