TY - JOUR
T1 - What is a crystal?
AU - Lifshitz, Ron
N1 - Funding Information:
My research in crystallography is currently supported by the Israel Science Foundation through grant number 684/06.
PY - 2007
Y1 - 2007
N2 - Almost 25 years have passed since Shechtman discovered quasicrystals, and 15 years since the Commission on Aperiodic Crystals of the International Union of Crystallography put forth a provisional definition of the term crystal to mean "any solid having an essentially discrete diffraction diagram." Have we learned enough about crystallinity in the last 25 years, or do we need more time to explore additional physical systems? There is much confusion and contradiction in the literature in using the term crystal. Are we ready now to propose a permanent definition for crystal to be used by all? I argue that time has come to put a sense of order in all the confusion.
AB - Almost 25 years have passed since Shechtman discovered quasicrystals, and 15 years since the Commission on Aperiodic Crystals of the International Union of Crystallography put forth a provisional definition of the term crystal to mean "any solid having an essentially discrete diffraction diagram." Have we learned enough about crystallinity in the last 25 years, or do we need more time to explore additional physical systems? There is much confusion and contradiction in the literature in using the term crystal. Are we ready now to propose a permanent definition for crystal to be used by all? I argue that time has come to put a sense of order in all the confusion.
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U2 - 10.1524/zkri.2007.222.6.313
DO - 10.1524/zkri.2007.222.6.313
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AN - SCOPUS:34249816767
VL - 222
SP - 313
EP - 317
JO - Zeitschfrift fur Kristallographie
JF - Zeitschfrift fur Kristallographie
SN - 0044-2968
IS - 6
ER -