Because amorphous aluminum hydroxide is the least stable among the mineral's forms, it spontaneously reacts with lithium from brine leached from waste clays. "Only when we did the measurements did ...

2010 Amorphous calcium phosphate nanospheres transform to form crystalline platelets in zebrafish collagen fibrils [84] Peng et al. 2011 Mineral NPs spontaneously form in fetal bovine serum used ...

Quasicrystals have structural properties intermediate between crystalline and amorphous materials. They can be synthesized in the lab but, as Luca Bindi explains, they may also be present in ...