Materials Physics

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3 domain-specific abstractions whose origin domain is Materials Physics.

• Glass formation — The kinetic arrest of a liquid or disordered material into an amorphous solid before crystallization can establish long-range order.
• Negative thermal expansion — The material response in which length or volume decreases over a temperature interval as temperature increases.
• Pyroelectricity — The change in spontaneous electric polarization and resulting surface charge produced by a change in a material’s temperature.