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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Main Authors: Takeshi Egami, Chae Woo Ryu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-06-01
Series:Frontiers in Materials
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmats.2022.874191/full