"On short timescales, glass behaves much like a solid. But the liquidlike structure of glass means that over a long enough ...

Their paper, published in Nature Physics, sheds light on the origin and evolution of elasticity in these two classes of amorphous solids. "Our research started by observing the unique mechanical ...

More information: Ashish Jain et al, Intrinsic dichroism in amorphous and crystalline solids with helical light, Nature Communications (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-45735-9 Provided by ...

An amorphous material is a solid whose molecules and atoms form disordered structures, meaning that they do not occupy regular, well-defined positions in space. This is the opposite of what ...