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ArticleNature materials2022

Three-dimensional atomic packing in amorphous solids with liquid-like structure.

Yakun Yuan, Dennis S Kim, Jihan Zhou, Dillan J Chang, Fan Zhu, Yasutaka Nagaoka, Yao Yang, Minh Pham, Stanley J Osher, Ou Chen and 3 more

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Article in Nature materials, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers.

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5.8field-weighted citation impact, top 3% of its field
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25 citing papers in PubMed, 115 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

13 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Yakun Yuan *Department of Physics and Astronomy and California NanoSystems Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Dennis S Kim *Department of Physics and Astronomy and California NanoSystems Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5707-2609
Jihan Zhou *Department of Physics and Astronomy and California NanoSystems Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Dillan J ChangDepartment of Physics and Astronomy and California NanoSystems Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3715-1596
Fan ZhuDepartment of Physics and Astronomy and California NanoSystems Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Yasutaka NagaokaDepartment of Chemistry, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8612-2612
Yao YangDepartment of Physics and Astronomy and California NanoSystems Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2896-9046
Minh PhamDepartment of Mathematics, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Stanley J OsherDepartment of Mathematics, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Ou ChenDepartment of Chemistry, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0551-090X
Peter ErciusNational Center for Electron Microscopy, Molecular Foundry, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6762-9976
Andreas K SchmidNational Center for Electron Microscopy, Molecular Foundry, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, USA.
Jianwei MiaoDepartment of Physics and Astronomy and California NanoSystems Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA. miao@physics.ucla.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4033-3945
California NanoSystems Institute · USBrown University · USLawrence Berkeley National Laboratory · USUniversity of California, Los Angeles · US

Funding

DOE | SC | Basic Energy Sciences (BES) DE-AC02-05CH11231DOE | SC | Basic Energy Sciences (BES) DE-SC0010378National Science Foundation (NSF) DMR-1548924
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Liquids and solids are two fundamental states of matter. However, our understanding of their three-dimensional atomic structure is mostly based on physical models. Here we use atomic electron tomography to experimentally determine the three-dimensional atomic positions of monatomic amorphous solids, namely a Ta thin film and two Pd nanoparticles. We observe that pentagonal bipyramids are the most abundant atomic motifs in these amorphous materials. Instead of forming icosahedra, the majority of pentagonal bipyramids arrange into pentagonal bipyramid networks with medium-range order. Molecular dynamics simulations further reveal that pentagonal bipyramid networks are prevalent in monatomic metallic liquids, which rapidly grow in size and form more icosahedra during the quench from the liquid to the glass state. These results expand our understanding of the atomic structures of amorphous solids and will encourage future studies on amorphous-crystalline phase and glass transitions in non-crystalline materials with three-dimensional atomic resolution.

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