Structural Principles in Liquids and Glasses: Bottom-Up or Top-Down
The conventional approach to elucidate the atomic structure of liquid and glass is to start with local structural units made of several atoms, and to use them as building blocks to form a global structure, the bottom-up approach. We propose to add an alternative top-down approach in which we start w...
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Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2022-06-01
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Series: | Frontiers in Materials |
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Online Access: | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmats.2022.874191/full |