Although liquids normally crystallize on cooling, there are members of all liquid types
(including molecular, ionic and metallic) that supercool and then solidify at their glass …

If crystallization can be avoided when a liquid is cooled, it will typically form a glass. Near the
glass transition temperature the viscosity increases continuously but rapidly with cooling. As …

Glass is a microscopically disordered, solid form of matter that results when a fluid is cooled
or compressed in such a manner that it does not crystallize. Almost all types of materials are …

Supercooled liquids—at temperatures below their normal freezing point—can undergo a
subtle transition to a microscopically fixed, yet amorphous, state: a glass. The temperature of …

Most materials attain a glassy state at low temperatures under suitable methods of
preparation. This state exhibits the mechanical properties of a solid, but shows microscopic …

The nature of the transformation by which a supercooled liquid 'freezes' to a glass—the
glass transition—is a central issue in condensed matter physics,, but also affects many other …

Glasses, are amorphous solids, in the sense that they display elastic behaviour. In
crystalline solids, elasticity is associated with phonons, which are quantized vibrational …

Many liquids cooled to low temperatures form glasses (amorphous solids) instead of
crystals. As the glass transition is approached, molecules become localized and relaxation …

Glass formation in colloidal suspensions has many of the hallmarks of glass formation in
molecular materials,,,,. For hard-sphere colloids, which interact only as a result of excluded …

Glasses are disordered materials that lack the periodicity of crystals but behave
mechanically like solids. The most common way of making a glass is by cooling a viscous …