Nature Communications (Sep 2020)
Emergent solidity of amorphous materials as a consequence of mechanical self-organisation
Abstract
Glass materials are solid, like crystals, but lack long-range order, whilst the origin of their solidity remains elusive. Tong et al. show that the emergent solidity of glasses is induced by self-organization of percolation of force-bearing network appeared at the non-equilibrium glass transition upon cooling.