Variety in building block softness makes for softer amorphous materials
Date | 4th, May 2024 |
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Source | Nanowerk - Nanotechnology Websites |
DESCRIPTION
Scientists from Tokyo Metropolitan University have created a new model for disordered materials to study how amorphous materials resist stress. They treated groups of atoms and molecules as squishy spheres with varying softness. Putting their model under a load, they discovered unexpected disparities between harder regions and where forces were concentrated, with areas in between such regions “hardening” to produce elongated “force chains”.