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ReviewACS physical chemistry Au2025

Is the Future of Materials Amorphous? Challenges and Opportunities in Simulations of Amorphous Materials.

Ata Madanchi, Emna Azek, Karim Zongo, Laurent K Béland, Normand Mousseau, Lena Simine

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Review in ACS physical chemistry Au, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

10 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. In Silicon Deciphering Atomic-Scale Structural Units in Peptide Glass.Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) · 2026
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  2. Origin of Structural Variations in Amorphous SiOThe journal of physical chemistry. C, Nanomaterials and interfaces · 2026
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  8. Designing the Self-Assembly of Disordered Materials Via Color Frustration.Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.) · 2025
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  10. Application of Machine Learning in Amorphous Alloys.Materials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Ata MadanchiDepartment of Physics, McGill University, Montréal, Québec H3A 2T8, Canada.
Emna AzekDepartment of Chemistry, McGill University, Montréal, Québec H3A 0B8, Canada.
Karim ZongoDepartment of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, Queen's University, Kingston, ON K7L 3N6, Canada.
Laurent K BélandDepartment of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, Queen's University, Kingston, ON K7L 3N6, Canada.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5332-7128
Normand MousseauDépartement de Physique, Institut Courtois and Regroupement Québécois sur les Matériaux de Pointe, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec H3C 3J7, Canada.
Lena SimineDepartment of Chemistry, McGill University, Montréal, Québec H3A 0B8, Canada.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8188-0550

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Amorphous solids form an enormous and underutilized class of materials. In order to drive the discovery of new useful amorphous materials further we need to achieve a closer convergence between computational and experimental methods. In this review, we highlight some of the important gaps between computational simulations and experiments, discuss popular state-of-the-art computational techniques such as the Activation Relaxation Technique

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PMCPMC11758375

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