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Disordered materials

One liquid, two glasses

Nature Materials volume 1, pages 145–146 (2002)Cite this article

The ability to tune the properties of disordered materials is reaching new levels. Experiments with colloidal systems, combined with theoretical predictions, may lead to the design of novel soft materials and to a deeper understanding of the glass and gel states of matter.

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Figure 1: Two simple models for the interaction between colloidal particles are the hard-sphere model and the short-range square-well potential.
Figure 2: Temperature versus volume fraction phase diagram.

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