Fig. 7: FEAR simulation confirmation that MRD can be used to represent the percentage of small-sized rings.
From: Revealing the relationship between liquid fragility and medium-range order in silicate glasses
a Measured (black dotted curves) and two simulated, MD (red solid curves) and FEAR (blue solid curves) total reduced structure factors F(Q) for three CAS and FS glasses, with each glass’ F(Q)s vertically shifted up by 2 for clarity. b Guttman’s ring-size distribution for each glass. c Comparison of grouped ring-size distribution for all glasses. d Inverse correlation between MRD and relative percentage of ≤4-membered rings.
