Spatial confinement is known to induce a drastic change in the viscosity, relaxation times,
and flow profile of liquids near the glass (or jamming) transition point. The essential …

Particle dynamics in supercooled liquids are often dominated by stringlike motions in which
lines of particles perform activated hops cooperatively. The structural features triggering …

Recent theories predict that when a supercooled liquid approaches the glass transition,
particle clusters with a special “amorphous order” nucleate within the liquid, which lead to …

Glass-forming liquids exhibit a rich phenomenology upon confinement. This is often related
to the effects arising from wall–fluid interactions. Here we focus on the interesting limit where …

Glassy dynamics is intermittent, as particles suddenly jump out of the cage formed by their
neighbors, and heterogeneous, as these jumps are not uniformly distributed across the …

State-of-the-art techniques for simulating deeply supercooled liquids require a high degree
of size polydispersity to be effective. While these techniques have enabled great insight into …

To date, there is still no general consensus on the fundamental principle that governs glass
transition. Colloidal suspensions are ordinarily utilized as model systems to study the …

Using molecular dynamics simulations, we have determined that the nature of dynamical
heterogeneity in jammed liquids is very sensitive to short-ranged attractions. Weakly …

In glassy dynamics, the rattling of particles in a cage formed by their neighbors is typically
limited to a length scale of the order of the particle diameter but is nevertheless strongly …

The link between local structure and dynamical slowdown in glassy fluids has been the
focus of intense debate for the better part of a century. Nonetheless, a simple method to …