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The discovery of Quasiperiodic Crystals challenged the existing paradigm of which community?
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The discovery of Quasiperiodic Crystals challenged the existing paradigm of crystallographers. This was because, for centuries, it was believed that all crystals had periodic structure, which means that they were made up of a repeating pattern of atoms. However, quasiperiodic crystals have a non-repeating structure, which means that they cannot be described by the same mathematical equations as periodic crystals.
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