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Objective
The objective of this school is to provide students with a basic understanding of the structure and properties of hypermaterials.
It also aims to provide a stepping stone for young people to participate in research in this fascinating field.
The following topics will be selected and treated in each lecture.
- Modulated structures
- Composite structures
- Quasicrystals and approximants
- Metallurgy/Alloys
- Magnetic structures
- Stability and phase transitions
- Surfaces, thin films and 2-D aperiodic structures
- Disorder and defects
- Self-assembly
- Manipulated assembly
- Mesoscopic systems
- Aperiodic chemical and biological crystals
- Mathematics of aperiodic structures
- Symmetry of aperiodic structures
- Tiling descriptions
- Higher-dimensional descriptions of aperiodic systems
- Topological aspects of aperiodicity
- Electronic properties
- Magnetic properties
- Mechanical properties
- Dynamics - phonons and phasons
- Thermal properties
- Novel phenomena (e.g. aperiodicity and strongly correlated electron systems, superconductivity)
- New methods of investigation
- Progress in instrumentation
- Scattering methods and diffraction theory
- Diffuse scattering
- Data processing methods
- Solution, refinement and interpretation of structure
- Aperiodic systems under extreme conditions: temperature, pressure, and magnetic field
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