• Medientyp: E-Artikel
  • Titel: Pressure-Induced Amorphization of R -Al 5 Li 3 Cu: A Structural Relation Among Amorphous Metals, Quasi-Crystals, and Curved Space
  • Beteiligte: Winters, Robert R.; Hammack, William S.
  • Erschienen: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 1993
  • Erschienen in: Science
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • DOI: 10.1126/science.260.5105.202
  • ISSN: 0036-8075; 1095-9203
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  • Beschreibung: <jats:p> A central question in the study of amorphous materials is the extent to which they are ordered. When the crystalline intermetallic <jats:italic>R</jats:italic> -Al <jats:sub>5</jats:sub> Li <jats:sub>3</jats:sub> Cu is compressed to 23.2 gigapascals at ambient temperature, an amorphous phase is produced whose order can be described as defects in a curved-space crystal. This result supports a structural relation between quasi-crystals and amorphous metals based on icosahedral ordering. This result also shows that a metallic crystal can be made amorphous by compression. </jats:p>