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NEW! Quasicrystals: a brief history of the impossible
Rend. Fis. Acc. Lincei  (2013)


NEW! Cover article: Reviews of Progress in Physics
In search of natural quasicrystals (cover article)
ROPP  (2012) 
(PJS & L. Bindi)

First announcement of journey to Chukotka
(scientific results to appear in later publications)
Elements  (2012)
(L. Bindi & PJS)

Evidence that the natural quasicrystal is an extraterrestrial
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences  (2012)
(L. Bindi, J. Eiler, Y. Guan, L. Hollister, G. Macpherson, PJS, N. Yao)

Announcement of "icosahedrite" - first quasicrystal to be accepted as a natural mineral
American Mineralogist (2011)
(L. Bindi, PJS, N. Yao, P. Lu)

First discovery of a natural quasicrystal
SCIENCE (2009)
(L. Bindi, PJS, N. Yao, P. Lu)

The search for a natural quasicrystal begins
PRL (2001)
(P. Lu, K. Deffeyes, PJS, N. Yao)

2010 Update: Once upon a time in Kamchatka  (ICQ11 Proceedings)
Phil Mag.(2010)
(L. Bindi, PJS)

               
            Luca Bindi, Valery Kryachko & PJS                                  Moonrise at Midnight in the Koryaks
             at the Listvenitovyi stream, Koryaks
 Luca Bindi, Valery Kryachko & PJS at the Listvenitovyi stream