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A State Between Liquid and Crystal: Locally Crystalline but with the Structure Factor of a Liquid
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A State Between Liquid and Crystal: Locally Crystalline but with the Structure Factor of a Liquid

RPL Sear and JP Mithen
Crystal Growth and Design, Vol.16(6), pp.3049-3053
25/04/2016

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Using computer simulations, we study a nonequilibrium state with a liquid-like S(k) but where over 95% of the molecules are in locally crystalline environments. Due to its liquid-like S(k) and slow dynamics, the state is apparently amorphous, although it contains nanocrystalline order. This nanocrystalline order can strongly bias the polymorph that forms when the state crystallizes.
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