I've always been fascinated by how materials break down, especially glasses and polymers that don't have a regular crystal ...

Scientists found low-density amorphous ice in space isn’t fully random - it hides tiny crystals, reshaping our understanding ...

Scientists have provided the first proof that amorphous materials, also known as soft glasses, deform and flow through a collective movement of their particles. These materials (which include ...

A look inside the box Of course, it is not building blocks the Konstanz physicists are interested in. They want to answer the question of when disordered solids lose their molecular stability. To ...

Scientists at EPFL and AstraZeneca have developed a method to map the atomic-level structure of amorphous drugs, demonstrated on a GLP-1 receptor agonist candidate for diabetes and obesity ...

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How do amorphous solids respond to a small deformation? Can standard elasticity describe amorphous solids? To answer this question, Dr. JIN Yuliang from the Institute of Theoretical Physics (ITP ...

Glassy state: a new field theory describes amorphous materials such as glass beads. (Courtesy: iStock/schmidt-z) Many common materials such as glass, compacted sand and toothpaste have a solid’s ...

Amorphous solids have no characteristic symmetry, so they do not have regular planes of cleavage when cut; the edges may be curved.

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 ...