Nature Communications (Sep 2020)

Emergent solidity of amorphous materials as a consequence of mechanical self-organisation

  • Hua Tong,
  • Shiladitya Sengupta,
  • Hajime Tanaka

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18663-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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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.