Comptes Rendus
no. 7-8
Science in the making 2: From 1940 to the early 1980s / La science en mouvement 2 : de 1940 aux premières années 1980
Discovery of quasicrystals: The early days
[Découverte des quasicristaux : les premiers pas]
Denis Gratias1  ; Marianne Quiquandon1
1 CNRS, IRCP UMR 8247, Chimie-ParisTech, 11, rue Pierre-et-Marie-Curie, 75005 Paris, France
Comptes Rendus. Physique, Volume 20 (2019) no. 7-8, pp. 803-816.

Cet article relate le développement initial des recherches sur les quasicristaux depuis leur découverte par Daniel Shechtman (prix Nobel de chimie en 2011) en 1982 au National Bureau of Standards (aujourd'hui National Institute for Standards and Technology) à Gaithersburg (Maryland, États-Unis) jusqu'au début des années 1990, période durant laquelle se sont développées les méthodes cristallographiques adaptées à l'analyse de ces structures atomiques quasicristallines. Ces premiers travaux ont permis d'élargir notre compréhension de l'ordre dans les solides grâce à une forte pluridisciplinarité alliant mathématiciens, physiciens et spécialistes de la science des matériaux.

This paper is a survey of the initial developments of the research on quasicrystals starting from their discovery by Daniel Shechtman (Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2011) in 1982 at the National Bureau of Standards (now National Institute for Standard and Technology) in Gaithersburg (Maryland, USA) up to the beginning of the early 1990s, a time when the crystallographic methods were well developed and mastered enough to decipher the ultimate atomic structures of quasicrystals. These early works have enlarged our understanding of spatial order in solids through a strong multidisciplinary effort between mathematicians, physicists, chemists and material scientists.

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DOI : 10.1016/j.crhy.2019.05.009
Keywords: Quasicrystals, Icosahedral phases, N-dim crystallography, Complex intermetallic alloys
Mot clés : Quasicristaux, Phases icosaédriques, Cristallographie N-dimensionnelle, Alliages intermétalliques complexes
Denis Gratias 1 ; Marianne Quiquandon 1

1 CNRS, IRCP UMR 8247, Chimie-ParisTech, 11, rue Pierre-et-Marie-Curie, 75005 Paris, France 
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