Structural heterogeneities and mechanical behavior of amorphous alloys

JC Qiao, Q Wang, JM Pelletier, H Kato… - Progress in Materials …, 2019 - Elsevier
Although the atomic structure of amorphous alloys, which lacks long-range translational
symmetry, may appear homogeneous at the macroscopic scale, their local dynamic and/or …

Polymer physics of intracellular phase transitions

CP Brangwynne, P Tompa, RV Pappu - Nature Physics, 2015 - nature.com
Intracellular organelles are either membrane-bound vesicles or membrane-less
compartments that are made up of proteins and RNA. These organelles play key biological …

Deformation of metallic glasses: Recent developments in theory, simulations, and experiments

TC Hufnagel, CA Schuh, ML Falk - Acta Materialia, 2016 - Elsevier
We review recent research into elastic and plastic deformation of metallic glasses, with an
emphasis on making connections between developments in theory and simulation (largely …

Polymer free volume and its connection to the glass transition

RP White, JEG Lipson - Macromolecules, 2016 - ACS Publications
In this Perspective we summarize the most widely used definitions of free volume and
illustrate the differences between them, including the important distinction between total free …

The role of local structure in dynamical arrest

CP Royall, SR Williams - Physics Reports, 2015 - Elsevier
Amorphous solids, or glasses, are distinguished from crystalline solids by their lack of long-
range structural order. At the level of two-body structural correlations, glassformers show no …

50th Anniversary Perspective: Challenges in the Dynamics and Kinetics of Glass-Forming Polymers

GB McKenna, SL Simon - Macromolecules, 2017 - ACS Publications
The phenomenology of the glass transition and the associated behavior in the near liquid
and glassy states are detailed, including the cooling rate dependence of the glass transition …

[HTML][HTML] Configurational entropy of glass-forming liquids

L Berthier, M Ozawa, C Scalliet - The Journal of chemical physics, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
The configurational entropy is one of the most important thermodynamic quantities
characterizing supercooled liquids approaching the glass transition. Despite decades of …

High-throughput molecular dynamics simulations and validation of thermophysical properties of polymers for various applications

MAF Afzal, AR Browning, A Goldberg… - ACS Applied Polymer …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Recent advances in graphics processing unit (GPU) hardware and improved efficiencies of
atomistic simulation programs allow for the screening of a large number of polymers to …

Simple liquids' quasiuniversality and the hard-sphere paradigm

JC Dyre - Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
This topical review discusses the quasiuniversality of simple liquids' structure and dynamics
and two possible justifications of it. The traditional one is based on the van der Waals picture …

Temperature dependence of rate processes beyond Arrhenius and Eyring: Activation and Transitivity

VH Carvalho-Silva, ND Coutinho, V Aquilanti - Frontiers in chemistry, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Advances in the understanding of the dependence of reaction rates from temperature, as
motivated from progress in experiments and theoretical tools (eg, molecular dynamics), are …