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The changing faces of disorder

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Ice, silicon and oxide glasses can show amorphous phases of distinct densities. Based on changes in atomic bond lengths, a similar polyamorphism has now been observed in structurally different metallic glasses.

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Figure 1: Polyamorphism in Ce55Al45.

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  1. Alain R. Yavari is at the Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble and the Centre National de Recherche Scientifique, St-Martin-d'Heres 38402, France. yavari@ltpcm.inpg.fr,

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Yavari, A. The changing faces of disorder. Nature Mater 6, 181–182 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat1853

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