The study of disordered materials poses numerous challenges, and computational approaches have proved useful to supplement and support structural experiments. Now, an abstract computational model has been used to study the structure of amorphous calcium carbonate, providing mechanistic insights into the emergence of the disordered phase as well as its atomic-level configurations.
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Dshemuchadse, J. Isotropic models for anisotropic inorganics. Nat. Chem. 16, 6–7 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41557-023-01402-y
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