The jury's still out on how glasses and other disordered materials form. However, a new framework suggests that we can understand their mechanical properties without this information, by using the physics of jamming.
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Biroli, G. In search of the perfect glass. Nature Phys 10, 555–556 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys3054
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