Polymer coatings of nanometric thickness are about to enter in everyday life as part of a
wide range of applications such as protective layers, stimuli-responsive membranes or as …

Two challenging scientific disciplines, ie, the physics of glasses [Anderson, Science 267,
1615 (1995); Kennedy and Norman, Science 309, 75 (2005)] and interface chemistry …

Unlike a crystal, a glassy solid state displays slow internal relaxation processes besides
vibrational modes even when structural (α) relaxation is frozen. The precise nature of such …

The transport of nanoparticles in semiflexible networks, which form diverse principal
structural components throughout living systems, is important in biology and biomedical …

Many-body dynamics of atoms such as glass dynamics is generally governed by complex
(and sometimes unknown) physics laws. This challenges the construction of atom dynamics …

Amorphous–amorphous transformations under pressure are generally explained by
changes in the local structure from low-to higher-fold coordinated polyhedra,,–. However, as …

Optimizing materials' properties and functions by controlling defects in the crystalline phase
has been a cornerstone of materials science and condensed matter physics. However, this …

Due to lack of either translational or rotational symmetries at atomic-scale, predicting
properties of amorphous materials from static structure is a challenging task. To circumvent …

The mechanical properties of crystals are controlled by the translational symmetry of their
structures. But for glasses with a disordered structure, the link between the symmetry of local …

The dynamics of protein (or peptide)–membrane interactions plays a central role in cellular
functions; however, the underlying mechanisms remain unclear. Herein, through analyzing …