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Nanostructures in a new league

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Aperiodic materials do not surrender details of their structure as readily as do their crystalline counterparts. The latest computational solution to this problem brings aspects of ‘the beautiful game’ into play.

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Rehr, J. Nanostructures in a new league. Nature 440, 618–619 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1038/440618a

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