2009 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
The Discovery of Polymeric Quasicrystals : Theoretical Study of Structures and Physical Properties of Novel Quasicrystalline Materials
| Project/Area Number |
19540365
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Condensed matter physics II
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| Research Institution | Kyoto University |
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Principal Investigator |
DOTERA Tomonari Kyoto University, 理工学部, 教授 (30217616)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2007 – 2009
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| Keywords | (E)金属 |
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| Research Abstract |
The discovery of quasicrystals that have non-crystallographic rotational symmetry is one of great milestones in physics and material sciences in the late 20th-century. However, quasicrystalline structures had not been observed in any polymeric systems. In this research project the author showed evidence of a "polymeric quasicrystal" tiling for the first time, and studied polymeric quasicrystals theoretically. The present results elucidated the universal nature of quasicrystalline order from metals (hard matter) to polymers (soft matter). The work attracted much attention from both physics and chemistry fields.
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