Dynamic relaxations and relaxation-property relationships in metallic glasses

WH Wang - Progress in Materials Science, 2019 - Elsevier
Dynamic relaxation is an intrinsic and universal feature of glasses and enables fluctuation
and dissipation to occur, which induces plentiful behaviour, maintains equilibrium, and …

Colloidal matter: Packing, geometry, and entropy

VN Manoharan - Science, 2015 - science.org
BACKGROUND Colloids consist of solid or liquid particles, each about a few hundred
nanometers in size, dispersed in a fluid and kept suspended by thermal fluctuations …

Modulating electrolyte structure for ultralow temperature aqueous zinc batteries

Q Zhang, Y Ma, Y Lu, L Li, F Wan, K Zhang… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Rechargeable aqueous batteries are an up-and-coming system for potential large-scale
energy storage due to their high safety and low cost. However, the freeze of aqueous …

Thirty milliseconds in the life of a supercooled liquid

C Scalliet, B Guiselin, L Berthier - Physical Review X, 2022 - APS
We combine the swap Monte Carlo algorithm to long multi-CPU molecular dynamics
simulations to analyze the equilibrium relaxation dynamics of model supercooled liquids …

Revealing key structural features hidden in liquids and glasses

H Tanaka, H Tong, R Shi, J Russo - Nature Reviews Physics, 2019 - nature.com
A great success of solid state physics comes from the characterization of crystal structures in
the reciprocal (wave vector) space. The power of structural characterization in Fourier space …

Mode-coupling theory of the glass transition: A primer

LMC Janssen - Frontiers in Physics, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Understanding the physics of glass formation remains one of the major unsolved challenges
of condensed matter science. As a material solidifies into a glass, it exhibits a spectacular …

Tuning order in disorder

E Ma - Nature materials, 2015 - nature.com
Recent research has revealed considerable diversity in the short-range ordering of metallic
glass, identifying favoured and unfavoured local atomic configurations coexisting in an …

Processing pathways decide polymer properties at the molecular level

S Chandran, J Baschnagel, D Cangialosi… - …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Conditions of rapid processing often drive polymers to adopt nonequilibrium molecular
conformations, which, in turn, can give rise to structural, dynamical, and mechanical …

Predicting dynamic heterogeneity in glass-forming liquids by physics-inspired machine learning

G Jung, G Biroli, L Berthier - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
We introduce GlassMLP, a machine learning framework using physics-inspired structural
input to predict the long-time dynamics in deeply supercooled liquids. We apply this deep …

Dodecagonal quasicrystalline order in a diblock copolymer melt

TM Gillard, S Lee, FS Bates - Proceedings of the National …, 2016 - National Acad Sciences
We report the discovery of a dodecagonal quasicrystalline state (DDQC) in a sphere
(micelle) forming poly (isoprene-b-lactide)(IL) diblock copolymer melt, investigated as a …