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Nature Materials 2, 571 - 572 (2003)
doi:10.1038/nmat969
Zeolites: Ordered, disordered, collapsed
Alexandra Navrotsky1
- Alexandra Navrotsky is at the Thermochemistry Facility and NEAT ORU, University of California at Davis, One Shields Avenue, Davis, California 95616, USA. e-mail: anavrotsky@ucdavis.edu
Abstract
Some crystalline solids, such as zeolites, can be converted into amorphous structures by heat or pressure without ever forming a liquid. Experiments and models show that the distinction between order and disorder is getting increasingly blurred.
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