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Determining the three-dimensional atomic structure of an amorphous solid
A method that achieves atomic-resolution tomographic imaging of an amorphous solid enables detailed quantitative characterization of the short- and medium-range order of the three-dimensional atomic arrangement.
- Yao Yang
- , Jihan Zhou
- & Jianwei Miao
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Matters Arising |
Slow compression of crystalline ice at low temperature
- R. Bauer
- , J. S. Tse
- & T. Hattori
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Strain-hardening and suppression of shear-banding in rejuvenated bulk metallic glass
Bulk metallic glasses can acquire the ability to strain-harden through a mechanical rejuvenation treatment at room temperature that retains their non-crystalline structure.
- J. Pan
- , Yu. P. Ivanov
- & A. L. Greer
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Synthesis and properties of free-standing monolayer amorphous carbon
The synthesis of surprisingly stable, free-standing single layers of amorphous carbon and their analysis by atomic-resolution imaging could settle a debate about their atomic arrangement and offer unusual electronics applications.
- Chee-Tat Toh
- , Hongji Zhang
- & Barbaros Özyilmaz
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High-temperature bulk metallic glasses developed by combinatorial methods
Bulk metallic glasses made from alloys of iridium, nickel, tantalum and boron are developed by combinatorial methods, with higher strength at high temperature than those previously produced.
- Ming-Xing Li
- , Shao-Fan Zhao
- & Wei-Hua Wang
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Granular materials flow like complex fluids
The relaxation dynamics of granular materials is more like that of complex fluids than that of thermal glass-forming systems, owing to the absence of the ‘cage effect’.
- Binquan Kou
- , Yixin Cao
- & Yujie Wang
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Three-dimensional printing of transparent fused silica glass
Using stereolithography 3D printers, a silica nanocomposite is shaped and then fused to produce non-porous, very smooth, highly transparent fused silica glass components.
- Frederik Kotz
- , Karl Arnold
- & Bastian E. Rapp
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Rejuvenation of metallic glasses by non-affine thermal strain
This study shows that metallic glasses can be rejuvenated (taken to higher energy states with more plasticity) by thermally cycling them at relatively low temperatures (well below the glass transition temperature); this is attributed to the effect of intrinsic structural inhomogeneities in the glassy state, which translate into localized internal strains as the temperature is cycled and the different regions expand and contract by different amounts.
- S. V. Ketov
- , Y. H. Sun
- & A. L. Greer
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Formation of monatomic metallic glasses through ultrafast liquid quenching
Metallic liquids of single elements have been successfully vitrified to their glassy states by achieving an ultrafast quenching rate in a new experimental design, of which the process has been monitored and studied by a combination of in situ transmission electron microscopy and atoms-to-continuum computer modelling.
- Li Zhong
- , Jiangwei Wang
- & Scott X. Mao
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Tunable near-infrared and visible-light transmittance in nanocrystal-in-glass composites
By introducing tin-doped indium oxide nanocrystals into niobium oxide glass, a new transparent material is produced with tunable and spectrally selective optical switching properties.
- Anna Llordés
- , Guillermo Garcia
- & Delia J. Milliron
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Bose glass and Mott glass of quasiparticles in a doped quantum magnet
Magnetic quasiparticles in a doped quantum magnet are shown to be well suited for realizing and exploring the ‘glassy’ states that are predicted to emerge for interacting bosons in the presence of disorder.
- Rong Yu
- , Liang Yin
- & Tommaso Roscilde
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Mobility gradients yield rubbery surfaces on top of polymer glasses
Nature trapped in glass