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JOURNAL OF PHYSICS-CONDENSED MATTER
Volume 16, Issue 49, Pages R1491-R1515Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0953-8984/16/49/R03
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Decades of experimental and theoretical studies have brought some useful insights about what defines resistance to amorphization by radiation damage; however, the problem is still viewed as generally unsolved. I review ideas and concepts that have been put forward to help with understanding this problem. I then discuss how the type of interatomic force is relevant for resistance to amorphization, with covalency of bonding stabilizing the damage and making material amorphizable. On a more detailed level, I suggest that resistance to amorphization of a complex non-metallic material is defined by the competition between the short-range covalent and long-range ionic forces. I follow this with a review of experimental data on 116 materials, to illustrate that the type of interatomic force can generally explain the resistance to amorphization. I conclude by discussing how the proposed picture is related to models proposed previously, and by suggesting some possible future research.
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