This is the opposite of what happens in crystals, whose ordered structure ... clearly identify the topological defects in an amorphous colloidal glass created in the lab by randomly assembling ...

and strongly reminiscent of the behaviour of glass-forming liquids. Understanding the formation of amorphous solids, such as glasses, colloids and granular materials, is a challenge. As with many ...

In that sense, polyamorphism is the amorphous analogue to polymorphism in crystals. Common to most ... report on polyamorphism in a metallic glass, where the bonding is non-directional in nature ...