‘Cluster–disordered glue’ model for icosahedral quasicrystals

Cluster-disordered glue model and role of glue atoms in the icosahedral quasicrystalline structure

“…In spite of extensive work for almost 20 years, there is no consensus yet on the mechanism of quasicrystalline stability. Recently Chidambaram proposed the Ôcluster-disordered glue' model for quasicrystals [2], based on the comparison of their properties with those of the related crystals or crystal approximants, and prompted by the results from positron annihilation experiments (see Ref. [3] for a review).…”