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 ...

Why do glass and other amorphous materials deform more easily in some regions than in others? A research team from the University of Osaka, the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and ...

One of the most important things to know regarding fused silica and quartz is that they both primarily consist of silica, also known as silicon dioxide. Silica is the primary constituent of most types ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...