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Disorder-Promoted Stability: Why Messy Materials Can Outlast Ordered Ones
Key Takeaways
- A peer-reviewed study titled "Disorder-promoted stability" appears in Science, Volume 393, Issue 6817, pages 1241–1249, September 2026.
- The title points to the idea that atomic-scale disorder can act as a stabilizing force rather than a defect.
- The concept is grounded in Gibbs free energy, where configurational entropy can outweigh enthalpic penalties at elevated temperature.
- Related systems include multi-principal-element alloys, entropy-stabilized oxides and disordered ceramics.
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