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Nature Materials 1, 87 - 88 (2002)
doi:10.1038/nmat737

Amorphous materials: Order within disorder

Philip S. Salmon1

  1. Philip S. Salmon is at the Department of Physics, University of Bath, Bath BA2 7AY, UK. e-mail: p.s.salmon@bath.ac.uk


The structure of glass is not as untidy as one would think. It has some degree of order intermediate between a liquid and a crystal. A new method allows control of this intermediate range order and improves our understanding of glass structures.

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