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procrystalline en · ADJ

Etymology

From pro- + crystalline.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) That will convert to a crystalline form
    • This property of procrystalline solids suggests a mechanism by which strongly-correlated topological disorder might allow new and useful functionalities, including independently-optimised thermal and electronic transport behaviour as required for high-performance thermoelectrics.. 2015, Alistair R. Overy, Andrew B. Cairns, Matthew J. Cliffe, Matthew G. Tucker, Andrew L. Goodwin, “Design of crystal-like aperiodic solids with selective disorder--phonon coupling”, in arXiv: