Abstract KNOWLEDGE of the structure of liquid silicates is essential to understanding the
properties of materials ranging from magmas in lava flows to melts in glass processing. At 1 …

Fold oxygen coordinated tetrahedral silicon (IVSi) is the common building block in silicas
and silicates. However, 17 crystallographically well-characterized inorganic silicates are …

IN silicate minerals formed at pressures typical of the Earth's crust, the silicon is usually
coordinated by four oxygen atoms. In contrast, silicates formed at higher pressures, typical of …

Abstract Knowledge of the structure of silicate glasses is one key to understanding their
chemical and physical properties, as well as those of the high-temperature liquids from …

Coordination and local geometry around Si cations in silicate liquids are of primary
importance in controlling the chemical and physical properties of magmas. Pressure …

It has been accepted since 1932 that the building block of silicate glasses consists of silicon
tetrahedrally coordinated to 4 oxygen atoms1. Although the existence of 6-coordinated …

A series of molecular dynamics (MD) calculations1 has been carried out to visualize the
atomic configuration in MgSiO3 melt and glass. The 'computer-generated'configuration …

The most common of man-made glasses have aluminosilicate compositions, and such
glasses also form from rapidly cooling magmas. Oxygen is the most abundant element in …

The crystalline-to-amorphous transformation in the solid state is currently the subject of
intense study. With the seminal discovery of amorphization of H2O ice I under pressure1 …

The atomic-scale dynamics of the glass-to-liquid transition are, in general, poorly
understood in inorganic materials. Here, two-dimensional magic angle spinning nuclear …