The nature of the transformation by which a supercooled liquid 'freezes' to a glass—the
glass transition—is a central issue in condensed matter physics,, but also affects many other …

Supercooled liquids—at temperatures below their normal freezing point—can undergo a
subtle transition to a microscopically fixed, yet amorphous, state: a glass. The temperature of …

Although liquids normally crystallize on cooling, there are members of all liquid types
(including molecular, ionic and metallic) that supercool and then solidify at their glass …

Glass is a microscopically disordered, solid form of matter that results when a fluid is cooled
or compressed in such a manner that it does not crystallize. Almost all types of materials are …

Glasses are disordered materials that lack the periodicity of crystals but behave
mechanically like solids. The most common way of making a glass is by cooling a viscous …

Glass formation in colloidal suspensions has many of the hallmarks of glass formation in
molecular materials,,,,. For hard-sphere colloids, which interact only as a result of excluded …

Abstract Arising from: VN Novikov & AP Sokolov Nature 431, 961–963 (2004) The lack of a
reliable theory of glass physics has led to the pursuit of correlations between various glass …

Most materials attain a glassy state at low temperatures under suitable methods of
preparation. This state exhibits the mechanical properties of a solid, but shows microscopic …

The glass transition can be viewed simply as the point at which the viscosity of a structurally
disordered liquid reaches a universal threshold value. But this is an operational definition …

If crystallization can be avoided when a liquid is cooled, it will typically form a glass. Near the
glass transition temperature the viscosity increases continuously but rapidly with cooling. As …