On structure and Properties of amorphous materials

Materials

Volumn 4, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1564-1598

  Stachurski, Zbigniew H ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Atomic clusters; Classification of amorphous solids; Crystallisation; Density fluctuations; Glass transition; Ideal amorphous solid model; Vitrification

Indexed keywords

AMORPHOUS SOLIDS; ATOMIC ARRANGEMENT; ATOMIC CLUSTERS; DENSITY FLUCTUATION; EMERGENT TECHNOLOGIES; MAGNETIC AND ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; STRUCTURE AND PROPERTIES; STRUCTURE OF LIQUIDS;

ATOMS; CRYSTALLIZATION; ELECTRONIC PROPERTIES; EXPERIMENTS; GLASS; GLASS TRANSITION; VITRIFICATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 84859869666     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19961944     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ma4091564     Document Type: Article

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