Amorphous materials have no long-range order in their atomic structure. This makes much
of the formalism for the study of crystalline materials irrelevant, and so elucidating their …

Research in bioactive glasses (BGs) has traditionally been performed through trial-and-error
experimentation. However, several modelling techniques will accelerate the discovery of …

We present a comprehensive molecular dynamics (MD) simulation study of composition–
structure trends in a set of 25 glasses of widely spanning compositions from the following …

The short and intermediate range structures of a large series of bioactive
borophosphosilicate (BPS) glasses were probed by solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance …

We present a comprehensive study of the Na environments in a large ensemble of 32
silicate-based glass compositions from the borosilicate, phosphosilicate, and …

Aluminosilicate glasses and melts are of great geological and technological importance.
Significant efforts have been spent for enhancing the insight into their structures. Here magic …

Bone mineral consists of calcium hydroxy-carbonate apatite (HCA) that incorporates other
minor cation substituents, primarily Na+ (0.5–0.8 wt%). We examine the carbonate species …

Lithium phosphorus oxynitride (LiPON) is an amorphous solid‐state lithium ion conductor
displaying exemplary cyclability against lithium metal anodes. There is no definitive …

Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy offers an element-selective, inherently
quantitative and experimentally very flexible approach for the structural elucidation of non …

This Primer critically reviews the possibilities and limitations of probing the short-range
structure of an oxide-based glass by routine magic-angle spinning (MAS) or triple-quantum …