This information in particular is crucial for the characterisation and understanding of materials, however. Clarifying the atomic structure of glass is one of the most important, yet unsolved issues ...

Scientists at EPFL and AstraZeneca have developed a method to map the atomic-level structure of amorphous drugs, demonstrated on a GLP-1 receptor agonist candidate for diabetes and obesity treatment.

image: Using JSC's JUQUEEN supercomputer, University of Cologne researchers were able to simulate the structure of silicon dioxide at a variety of different pressures.

a, Atomic-resolution STM image (20 × 20 nm 2, 1 nA, 200 mV) of a 15-nm-wide GNR displaying an atomically flat and defect-free structure.The colour scale bars encode the height of the imaged features.

This information in particular is crucial for the characterisation and understanding of materials, however. Clarifying the atomic structure of glass is one of the most important, yet unsolved issues ...