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Inside Cover: Bonding Nature of Local Structural Motifs in Amorphous GeTe (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 40/2014)
Author(s) -
Deringer Volker L.,
Zhang Wei,
Lumeij Marck,
Maintz Stefan,
Wuttig Matthias,
Mazzarello Riccardo,
Dronskowski Richard
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.201406993
Subject(s) - amorphous solid , polyhedron , cover (algebra) , materials science , snapshot (computer storage) , polyamorphism , crystallography , nanotechnology , solid state , chemical physics , chemistry , computer science , engineering physics , physics , combinatorics , engineering , mathematics , mechanical engineering , operating system
A glimpse into amorphous materials. In their Communication on page 10817 ff. R. Mazzarello, R. Dronskowski et al. investigate the bonding nature of amorphous GeTe, a prototypical phase‐change data‐storage material. Starting from a molecular‐dynamics snapshot, the role of different structural motifs is elucidated by the use of new tools; this way, the chemical “language” of bonding and coordination polyhedra may be transferred to the amorphous state.