Glasses are disordered materials that lack the periodicity of crystals but behave
mechanically like solids. The most common way of making a glass is by cooling a viscous …

Amorphous solids, or glasses, are distinguished from crystalline solids by their lack of long-
range structural order. At the level of two-body structural correlations, glassformers show no …

For 35 years, ab initio molecular dynamics (AIMD) has been the method of choice for
modeling complex atomistic phenomena from first principles. However, most AIMD …

Successful scientific applications of large-scale molecular dynamics often rely on automated
methods for identifying the local crystalline structure of condensed phases. Many existing …

Liquids and solids are two fundamental states of matter. However, our understanding of their
three-dimensional atomic structure is mostly based on physical models. Here we use atomic …

Two or more liquid states may exist even for single-component substances, which is known
as liquid polymorphism, and the transition between them is called liquid–liquid transition …

The implementation of a method for systematic analysis of local atomic structure in
combination with 3D computer graphics is described. The method, Common Neighbor …

Selected aspects of recent progress in the study of supercooled liquids and glasses are
presented in this review. As an introduction for nonspecialists, several basic features of the …

Unlike the well-defined long-range order that characterizes crystalline metals, the atomic
arrangements in amorphous alloys remain mysterious at present. Despite intense research …

Nanocrystalline solids, in which the grain size is in the nanometre range, often have
technologically interesting properties such as increased hardness and ductility …