A rare form of dark-colored organic glass, discovered inside the skull of a victim from the 79 CE Mount Vesuvius eruption, likely formed when an intense but short-lived ash cloud superheated the ...

Glasses are neither fluids nor crystals. They are amorphous solids and one of the big puzzles in condensed matter physics. For decades, the question of how glass forms has been a matter of controversy ...

Nucleation and glass formation are pivotal phenomena in materials science that dictate the development of crystalline and amorphous structures. Nucleation refers to the initial phase where small ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 118, No. 31 (August 3, 2021), pp. 1-8 (8 pages) Molecular, polymeric, colloidal, and other classes of liquids can ...

Physicists from the University of Waterloo have published a paper describing exactly how glass forms on a molecular level, providing an answer to a question that has stumped scientists for years. The ...

Machine learning has been used for a wide range of tasks such as speech recognition, fraud detection, product recommendations, image recognition and personalized medicine — nevertheless, its ...

Scientists ran molecular dynamics simulations to compose a more complete theory of the factors that drive crystallization instead of glass formation. They found that tiny changes in material ...

Principles of glass formation -- Glass melting -- Immiscibility/phase separation -- Structures of glasses -- Viscosity of glass formaing melts -- Density and thermal expansion -- Transport properties ...

It’s the kind of news that makes anyone with a cracked iPhone screen take notice: Researchers in Japan have announced they’ve created a new kind of glass, with some news reports calling it practically ...