"The book is currently the only available textbook on natural quasicrystals. Overall, it includes both basics and advanced discussions covering descriptive, experimental, and theoretical mineralogy, nevertheless is concise and written in plain sentences. ... This book is strongly recommended to both experienced mineralogists and petrologists, as well as beginners, and in particular, for the high-pressure mineral physics and meteoritics researchers." (Naotaka Tomioka, American Mineralogist, Vol. 106, 2021)
Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. What are quasicrystals and why are so important?.- Chapter 3. Can Nature have beaten us to the punch?.- Chapter 4. From crystalsto quasicrystals: There 's plenty of room between them.- Chapter 5. High pressure needed! The crystallagraphy of quasicrystals at extreme conditions.- Chapter 6. Dynamic versus static pressure: quasicrystals and shock experiments.- Chapter 7. Why quasicrystals grow in asteroidal collisions?.- Chapter 8. On the stability of quinary quasicrystals.- Chapter 9. Are quasicrystals really so rare in the Universe?.