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SUBMITTER: Bernstein N
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6563111 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) 20190417 21
Amorphous materials are being described by increasingly powerful computer simulations, but new approaches are still needed to fully understand their intricate atomic structures. Here, we show how machine-learning-based techniques can give new, quantitative chemical insight into the atomic-scale structure of amorphous silicon (a-Si). We combine a quantitative description of the nearest- and next-nearest-neighbor structure with a quantitative description of local stability. The analysis is applied ...[more]