Describing the structure of amorphous materials such as metallic glasses has been a longstanding problem in materials science. A new technique called fluctuation microscopy allows us to see order on length scales that are difficult to study with traditional scattering techniques.
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Hufnagel, T. Finding order in disorder. Nature Mater 3, 666–667 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat1227
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