Through the years, mineralogical studies have produced a tremendous amount of data on the atomic arrangement and mineral properties. Quite often, structural analysis has led to elucidate the role played by minor components, giving interesting insights into the physico-chemical conditions of minerals and allowing the description of unpredictable structures that represented a body of knowledge critical for assessing their technological potentialities. Using such a rich database, containing many basic acquisitions, further steps became appropriate and possible, into the directions of more advanced knowledge frontiers. Some of these frontiers assume the name of modularity, complexity, aperiodicity, and matter organization at not conventional levels, and will be discussed in this review.

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生产高度复杂的材料。自然做得更好

多年来，矿物学研究产生了大量关于原子排列和矿物特性的数据。很多时候，结构分析导致阐明微量成分所起的作用，为矿物的物理化学条件提供有趣的见解，并允许描述不可预测的结构，这些结构代表了对评估其技术潜力至关重要的知识体系。使用如此丰富的数据库，包含许多基本知识，进一步的步骤变得适当和可能，进入更高级的知识前沿方向。其中一些前沿以非传统级别的模块化、复杂性、非周期性和物质组织的名义，将在本次审查中进行讨论。