{"id":7463,"date":"2023-07-15T10:12:21","date_gmt":"2023-07-15T10:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/power2innovate.com\/biggest-yet-quasicrystal-made-by-shaking-metal-beads-for-a-week\/"},"modified":"2023-07-15T10:12:21","modified_gmt":"2023-07-15T10:12:21","slug":"biggest-yet-quasicrystal-made-by-shaking-metal-beads-for-a-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/power2innovate.com\/biggest-yet-quasicrystal-made-by-shaking-metal-beads-for-a-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Biggest-yet quasicrystal made by shaking metal beads for a week"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A computer-generated model of a quasicrystal pattern<\/p>\n
Eric Heller\/Science Photo Library<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n
After being shaken for about a week, thousands of millimetre-sized metal beads arranged themselves into an exotic structure called a quasicrystal \u2013 and it was the biggest one yet. The creation also helped the researcher behind it win a bet against a colleague.<\/p>\n