Water is ubiquitous and seemingly ordinary, possessing no distinct color or odor. Though we often take water for granted, it ...

This is the opposite of what happens in crystals, whose ordered structure facilitates their ... the topological defects in an amorphous colloidal glass created in the lab by randomly assembling ...

A QUESTION of fundamental importance in the theory of the solid state is the nature of the arrangement of the ultimate particles in amorphous or vitreous bodies, of which glass is the most ...

Liquid crystals ... of the structure does not match the periodicity of the underlying lattice, leading to unique properties. Glass Transition: The process by which an amorphous material ...