Adventures in phase space: Unified map on plastic and elastic glasses
Tuesday, December 18, 2018 - 09:50
in Physics & Chemistry
Glasses are an enigma among solid phases. Like crystalline solids they are hard, but unlike crystals they are amorphous on the molecular scale. Because of this structural disorder, each piece of glass is technically out of equilibrium, and unique. As a result, its properties depend not only on its chemical ingredients, but on how it was cooled.