In. Shabanova et al., CLUSTER STRUCTURE OF THE SURFACE OF AL65CU20FE15 ALLOY IN THE QUASI-CRYSTALLINE AND LIQUID-STATE, Surface review and letters, 4(6), 1997, pp. 1149-1153
The atomic structure of an alloy is mainly affected by its electronic
structure. The studies of the electronic structure of Al65Cu20Fe15 in
both the liquid and quasicrystalline state show that the surface of th
e sample contains clusters with strong hybridized bonds between atoms
which are similar in the liquid and quasicrystalline state. This fact
confirms qualitatively the concept of cluster structure of quasicrysta
ls.