Formation of a quasicrystalline Pb monolayer on the ten-fold surface of   the decagonal Al-Ni-Co quasicrystal
  Lead has been deposited on the ten-fold surface of decagonal Al72Ni11Co17 to form an epitaxial quasicrystalline single-element monolayer. The overlayer grows through nucleation of nanometer-sized irregular islands and the coverage saturates at 1 ML. The overlayer is well-ordered quasiperiodically as evidenced by LEED and Fourier transforms of STM images. Annealing the film to 600 K improves the structural quality, but causes the evaporation of some material such that the film develops pores. Electronic structure measurements using X-ray photoemission spectroscopy indicate that the chemical interaction of the Pb atoms with the substrate is weak. 
J.A. Smerdon, L. Leung, J.K. Parle, C.J. Jenks, R. McGrath, V.   Fournee, J. Ledieu