The melting of crystals is the process by which an increase in temperature induces the disruption of the ordered crystalline lattice, leading to the disordered structure and highly fluctuating dynamic ...

Image of rough colloidal ellipsoids, the systems investigated by the researchers. Credit: Liang et al The so-called glass transition is the process by which some liquid-like materials become ...

As anyone who extrudes plastic noodles knows, the glass transition temperature of a material is a bit misleading; polymers gradually transition between a glass and a liquid across a range of ...

Glass may look just like a normal solid, but at the microscopic level it behaves in surprisingly complex ways Atoms in a glass do not form a crystalline lattice but are found in a disordered state ...