Because of their complex macromolecular architecture, polymers do not crystallize easily. In a recent review Simone Napolitano, Emmanouil Glynos and Nicholas B Tito discuss this transition of polymers from a liquid to a glassy state.
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What’s the difference between defects and amorphous structures?
In a recent Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter paper, researchers at the Fritz Haber Institute have found that the structures of domain boundaries, sometimes thought to be amorphous, are in fact distinct from the glassy state.
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