Glass transition is characterised by drastic dynamical slowing down upon cooling,
accompanied by growing spatial heterogeneity. Its rationalisation by subtle changes in the …

The dynamics of a supercooled liquid near the glass transition is characterized by two-step
relaxation, fast β and slow α relaxations. Because of the apparently disordered nature of …

Glasses are among the most widely used of everyday materials, yet the process by which a
liquid's viscosity increases by 14 decades to become a glass remains unclear, as often …

Despite the use of glasses for thousands of years, the nature of the glass transition is still
mysterious. On approaching the glass transition, the growth of dynamic heterogeneity has …

The dynamical glass transition is typically taken to be the temperature at which a glassy
liquid is no longer able to equilibrate on experimental timescales. Consequently, the …

Few questions in condensed matter science have proven as difficult to unravel as the
interplay between structure and dynamics in supercooled liquids. To explore this link, much …

Among the key challenges to our understanding of solidification in the glass transition is that
it is accompanied by little apparent change in structure. Recently, geometric motifs have …

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 …

The growing sluggishness of glass-forming liquids is thought to be accompanied by growing
structural order. The nature of such order, however, remains hotly debated. A decade ago …

The origin of the precipitous dynamic arrest known as the glass transition is a grand open
question of soft condensed matter physics. It has long been suspected that this transition is …