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by SoftwareMaven 5044 days ago
From the paper's abstract:

Solid-state materials can be categorized by their structures into crystalline (having periodic translation symmetry), amorphous (no periodic and orientational symmetry), and quasi-crystalline (having orientational but not periodic translation symmetry) phases. Hybridization of crystalline and amorphous structures at the atomic level has not been experimentally observed. We report the discovery of a long-range ordered material constructed from units of amorphous carbon clusters that was synthesized by compressing solvated fullerenes.

So not a new type of matter, a new type of solid-state material, right? Or are different solid-state materials considered different forms of matter?