Amorphous materials: Properties, structure, and durability: Preface to the amorphous materials special section

Abstract

This special issue of American Mineralogist focuses on the “Structure and Properties of Silicate Melts and Fluids,” and follows the inaugural meeting “Frontiers in Mineral Sciences 2007” held in Cambridge between June 26–28, 2007 by the four mineralogical societies: the Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland, the Mineralogical Society of America, the Mineralogical Association of Canada, and the Societe Francaise de Mineralogie et de Cristallographie. Plans for this special issue were initiated during the conference, and we invited all the participants, as well as additional scientists, to contribute papers on aspects of their research related to the theme of the issue. This special issue is itself unique in that it is the first “virtual” special issue of American Mineralogist . …