If glass isn’t a solid or a liquid, then what is it? Photo by Flickr user -Kenzie- A glass of merlot may make the world look rosy, but it can also be a source of frustration for a physicist. The wine ...

The detailed structure of glass has always been a mystery in science. A research team has now discovered that the amorphous and crystalline metallic glass have the same structural building blocks. And ...

People who investigate scientific topics either love or hate glass, which is a confusing none-of-the-above unicorn: neither fully liquid nor fully solid, exhibiting some properties of each, but ...

(Nanowerk News) We can look through glass, but what glass itself looks like on the inside has so far remained a mystery - at least as far as the precise position of the atoms is concerned. Scientists ...

Glass has many applications that call for different properties, such as resistance to thermal shock or to chemically harsh environments. Glassmakers commonly use additives such as boron oxide to tweak ...

(Nanowerk News) Structure of amorphous materials clarified. This project has so far been a big challenge due to the complexity of this material class. Modern preparation methods in combination with ...

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The inherent atomic packing modes of glassy solids remain one of the most interesting and fundamental problems in condensed-matter physics and materials science 1,2. Although significant progress has ...