准晶的结果发表在PRL上，怎么能说是不起眼的期刊？

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2011年10月5日，瑞典皇家科学院宣布丹尼尔·谢克特曼获得今年诺贝尔化学奖，表彰他发现了准晶这种新材料。1982年4月的休假期间，谢克特曼在美国霍普金斯大学的一座实验室里研究铝锰合金时，发现了这种特殊的晶体。但是这一发现直到五年之后才被科学界认可。五年里，怀疑和嘲笑始终围绕着谢克特曼，甚至被当时颇有名望的美国化学家公开批评是胡说，因为当时的常识是固体材料只能分为晶体和非晶体两种，不存在第三种固体材料。在谢克特曼的坚持和不懈努力下，最终获得了成功，得到世界的承认。
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1982年，在美国霍普金斯大学工作的谢克特曼发现了准晶这种违背以往科学常识的物质结构。这种新的结构因为缺少空间周期性而不是晶体，但又不像非晶体。在发现准晶过程中, 谢克特曼曾经饱受怀疑，但由于他的坚持和不懈努力,而最终获得了成功并享誉世界。准晶的发现冲击了传统晶体学中的基本概念

Quasicrystals possess remarkable crystallographic and physical properties, embodying a novel kind of crystalline order. Shechtman discovered quasiperiodic crystals in April 1982, while he was a visiting scholar at the National Bureau of Standards in Maryland, USA. He was the first to reveal the “icosahedral phase” in rapidly solidified aluminum transition metal alloys, which opened up the field of quasiperiodic crystals as an area of study in materials science.

At the time, most of his colleagues ridiculed Shechtman. He returned to Technion, where Dr Ilan Blech was the only colleague who not only believed in him but who agreed to cooperate with him. Blech was able to decipher Shechtman's experimental findings and offered an explanation, known as the Icosahedral Glass Model. In November 1984, Physical Review Letters published Shechtman’s discovery in a scientific paper co-authored with three other scientists: Ilan Blech (Israel), Denis Gratias (France) and John Cahn (USA). Wider acclaim
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找到了。PRL应该是不错的期刊，不知是否在之前投过别的期刊没有？

Phys. Rev. Lett. 53, 1951–1953 (1984)
Metallic Phase with Long-Range Orientational Order and No Translational Symmetry
http://prl.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v53/i20/p1951_1