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 …

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 …

Liquid-like atoms in dense-packed solid glasses

C Chang, HP Zhang, R Zhao, FC Li, P Luo, MZ Li… - Nature Materials, 2022 - nature.com
Revealing the microscopic structural and dynamic pictures of glasses is a long-standing
challenge for scientists,. Extensive studies on the structure and relaxation dynamics of …

Protein condensates as aging Maxwell fluids

L Jawerth, E Fischer-Friedrich, S Saha, J Wang… - Science, 2020 - science.org
Protein condensates are complex fluids that can change their material properties with time.
However, an appropriate rheological description of these fluids remains missing. We …

Quantum scarred eigenstates in a Rydberg atom chain: Entanglement, breakdown of thermalization, and stability to perturbations

CJ Turner, AA Michailidis, DA Abanin, M Serbyn… - Physical Review B, 2018 - APS
Recent realization of a kinetically constrained chain of Rydberg atoms by Bernien,[Nature
(London) 551, 579 (2017) NATUAS 0028-0836 10.1038/nature24622] resulted in the …

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 …

Modern computational studies of the glass transition

L Berthier, DR Reichman - Nature Reviews Physics, 2023 - nature.com
The physics of the glass transition and amorphous materials continues to attract the attention
of a wide research community after decades of effort. Supercooled liquids and glasses have …

Solid-state electrolytes for lithium-ion batteries: fundamentals, challenges and perspectives

W Zhao, J Yi, P He, H Zhou - Electrochemical Energy Reviews, 2019 - Springer
With the rapid popularization and development of lithium-ion batteries, associated safety
issues caused by the use of flammable organic electrolytes have drawn increasing attention …

[HTML][HTML] Universal properties of relaxation and diffusion in complex materials: Originating from fundamental physics with rich applications

KL Ngai - Progress in Materials Science, 2023 - Elsevier
Complex materials are composed of basic units which invariably interact with anharmonic
potentials. It is well known that the dynamics of systems with anharmonic interaction are …

Total synthesis of colloidal matter

T Hueckel, GM Hocky, S Sacanna - Nature Reviews Materials, 2021 - nature.com
Atoms serve as an inspiration for colloidal self-assembly, whereby building blocks can
combine and confer endless functionality using a few design principles, including …