Researchers explain the distinctive low-temperature thermal properties of glasses using molecular dynamics simulations. By focusing on string-like defects, they were able to create a unified ...

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For more than a century, an important class of matter -- the amorphous solid -- has eluded scientists' ability to depict nature at the level of atoms and molecules. Until now. A new study reports the ...

Persistence diagram obtained from the structure of amorphous silicon, examples of the local ring structures corresponding to each point in the diagram, and representative structures including atoms ...

WE have carried out some preliminary experiments to find the current-voltage stress characteristics of soda-lime glass, this being taken as an example of an amorphous solid having the properties of an ...

Solids come in two main structural types—crystalline, with orderly repeating patterns, and amorphous, with disordered arrangements. These structural differences shape their physical properties, from ...