Quasicrystal Surfaces*

Annual Review of Physical Chemistry

Vol. 59: 129-152 (Volume publication date May 2008)

First published online as a Review in Advance on November 7, 2007

DOI: 10.1146/annurev.physchem.59.032607.093736

Patricia A. Thiel

Ames Laboratory, Department of Chemistry, and Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011; email: pthiel@iastate.edu

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ABSTRACT

Studies of ordered, yet nonperiodic, metallic alloys known as quasicrystals have generated exciting questions and fundamental insights about the relationship between surface atomic structure and surface properties. In this review, I give examples from oxidation, friction, heterogeneous catalysis, and solid film growth, in which the Al-rich quasicrystals exhibit unusual properties, relative to crystalline materials of similar composition.