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Scientists just solved a 40-year-old mystery about quasicrystals

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Scientists at the University of Michigan have unlocked a long-standing mystery about quasicrystals exotic materials that straddle the line between the orderly structure of crystals and the chaos of glass.

The findings open the door to designing next-generation materials using powerful new computational techniques.

The new method overcomes this challenge because of their irregular atomic patterns.

The most accurate estimates of quasicrystal energy require the largest particles possible.

For nanoparticles with only hundreds of atoms, doubling the atoms increases the computing time eightfold.

The research is funded by the U.S. Department of Energy and relied on computing resources housed at the University of Texas , Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory .

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