Pauling L
Linus Pauling Institute of Science and Medicine, Palo Alto, CA 94306-2025, USA.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1991 Aug 1;88(15):6600-2. doi: 10.1073/pnas.88.15.6600.
The low-Q peaks on three pulsed-neutron powder patterns (total, U differential, and Pd differential) of the icosahedral quasicrystal Pd3SiU have been indexed on the basis of an assumed cubic structure of the crystals that by icosahedral twinning form the quasicrystal. The primitive unit cube is found to have edge length 56.20 A and to contain approximately 12,100 atoms. Similar analyses of pulsed-neutron patterns of Al55Cu10Li35, Al55Cu10Li30Mg5, and Al510Cu125Li235Mg130 give values of the cube edge length 58.3, 58.5, and 58.4 A, respectively, with approximately 11,650 atoms in the unit cube. It is suggested that the unit contains eight complexes in the beta-W positions, plus some small interstitial groups of atoms, with each complex consisting of a centered icosahedron of 13 clusters, each of 116 atoms with the icosahedral structure found in the body-centered cubic crystal Mg32(Al,Zn)49.
二十面体准晶体Pd₃SiU的三个脉冲中子粉末图谱(总图谱、U差分图谱和Pd差分图谱)上的低Q峰,已根据假定的晶体立方结构进行了指标化,该晶体通过二十面体孪晶形成准晶体。发现原始单位立方体的边长为56.20 Å,约包含12100个原子。对Al₅₅Cu₁₀Li₃₅、Al₅₅Cu₁₀Li₃₀Mg₅和Al₅₁₀Cu₁₂₅Li₂₃₅Mg₁₃₀的脉冲中子图谱进行类似分析,得到的立方体边长值分别为58.3 Å、58.5 Å和58.4 Å,单位立方体中约有11650个原子。有人提出,该单位在β-W位置包含八个络合物,外加一些小的间隙原子团,每个络合物由一个由13个簇组成的中心二十面体构成,每个簇有116个原子,具有体心立方晶体Mg₃₂(Al,Zn)₄₉中发现的二十面体结构。