A new way to make glass has been discovered by a
collaboration of researchers at the Universities of Düsseldorf and Bristol
using a method that controls how the atoms within a substance are arranged
around each other. The research is published today in Physical Review Letters.
When cooling a liquid below its melting temperature it
either crystallizes or transforms into a glass.
Glass is a peculiar state of matter: it has the mechanical properties of
a solid but an amorphous structure like a liquid.
journal reference (abstract free): Physical Review Letters>>