We review the recent literature on the simulation of the structure and deformation of
amorphous solids, including oxide and metallic glasses. We consider simulations at different …

The physical properties of a topologically disordered amorphous material (glass), such as
heat capacity and thermal conductivity, are markedly different from those of its ordered …

We compare the atomic dynamics of the glass to that of the relevant crystal. In the spectra of
inelastic scattering, the boson peak of the glass appears higher than the transverse acoustic …

The local elasticity of glasses is known to be inhomogeneous on a microscopic scale
compared to that of crystalline materials. Their vibrational spectrum strongly deviates from …

We measured the density of vibrational states (DOS) and the specific heat of various glassy
and crystalline polymorphs of SiO 2. The typical (ambient) glass shows a well-known excess …

We performed terahertz time-domain spectroscopy, low-frequency Raman scattering, and
Brillouin light scattering on vitreous glucose to investigate the boson peak (BP) dynamics. In …

Thermal, mechanical structural, and optical properties of the 80TeO 2-xZnO-(20-x) Na 2 O
(TZN) system were investigated. The structural study of the glasses showed that in the TZN …

The boson peak in the terahertz vibrational spectrum carries information about nano-
heterogeneities in the shear modulus in glass formers. Its evolution upon heating or cooling …

We calculate numerically the normal modes of vibrations in three-dimensional jammed
packings of soft spheres as a function of the packing fraction and obtain the energy …

Three different samples of β cyclodextrin nanosponges (CDNS) are prepared from β
cyclodextrin (βCD) and pyromellitic dianhydride (PMA). CDNS are cross-linked, nanoporous …