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 ...

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 ...

(Nanowerk News) Glasses are peculiar materials exhibiting excellent and well-known properties, but also some phenomena that are still not fully understood, even though they have been studied for more ...

Researchers have determined the three dimensional (3D) structure of a protein responsible for glass formation in sponges. They explain how the earliest and, in fact, the only known natural ...