Question 5 of 5

Which important publication starts with the following sentence?

“We report herein the existence of a metallic solid which diffracts electrons like a single crystal but has point group symmetry […] which is inconsistent with lattice translations.”

• Quasicrystals: A New Class of Ordered Structures,
  Dov Levine, Paul Joseph Steinhardt, 1984.
• Metallic Phase with Long-Range Orientational Order and No Translational Symmetry,
  Dan Shechtman et al., 1984.
• Icosahedral Aluminum–Transition-Metal Alloys,
  Peter A. Bancel, Paul A. Heiney, 1986.

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