Now, a new study has computationally constructed such a glass in two dimensions by forming a honeycomb-like structure (with the lattice removed) and allowing glass molecules to resize. The resulting structure behaved perfectly like a crystal, but held an amorphous structure like glass—possibly shining a light on how to more effectively form other materials. Unfortunately, cooling glass to this state would require essentially an infinite amount of time, and the overall paradoxical nature of “ideal glass” eventually led Kauzmann to dismiss the idea. They’re all pushed up against one another, but there’s no structure,” Corwin, senior author of the study, said in a press statement. an amorphous structure) can still be highly ordered in a more abstract sense (i.e.