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In April 1982, Prof. Dan Shechtman of the Technion–Israel Institute of Technology made the discovery that would later earn him the 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry: the quasiperiodic crystal. According ...

1 State Key Laboratory of Mechanical System and Vibration, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China. 2 School of Mechanics and Engineering Science, Shanghai University, Shanghai, China.