We want to find out when an amorphous solid loses its stability and starts to slide like a pile of sand," says Fuchs. Based on the "Euclidean random matrix" (ERM) models, the researchers uncovered ...

An amorphous material is one that may have short range atomic order but that lacks the translational symmetry (long range order) of a crystalline solid. Glasses are an example of amorphous materials ...

At the glass transition, where an amorphous solid (a glass) turns into a liquid, there is no obvious change in structure, and only the dynamics of the atoms change, going from strongly localized ...

Glasses, or more correctly glassy solids, are a class of amorphous solids that undergo a glass transition. Unpacking that, amorphous refers to the internal structure of the material, which lacks ...

The first X-ray strain measurements in amorphous metals allow for new understanding of complex glassy materials. Amorphous materials such as glass fibres and bulk metallic glasses are widely used ...

THE properties of pure amorphous boron form the subject of a contribution to the current number of the Comptes rendus by M. Moissan. In our chemical note of March 3 (p. 421), the method was ...