We provide a perspective on polymer glass formation, with an emphasis on models in which
the fluid entropy and collective particle motion dominate the theoretical description and data …

We investigate the fast β-and Johari–Goldstein (JG) β-relaxation processes, along with the
elastic scattering response of glass-forming (GF) liquids and the boson peak, in a simulated …

We perform coarse-grained simulations of model unentangled polymer materials to quantify
the range over which interfaces alter the structure and dynamics in the vicinity of the …

Semicrystalline polymers are solids that are supposed to flow only above their melting
temperature. By using confinement within nanoscopic cylindrical pores, we show that a …

It has long been thought that shear band (SB) formation in amorphous solids initiates from
relatively “soft” regions in the material in which large-scale non-affine deformations become …

We examine the mobility gradient in the interfacial region of substrate-supported polymer
films using molecular dynamics simulations and interpret these gradients within the string …

Glass-formation is a ubiquitous phenomenon that is often observed in a broad class of
materials ranging from biological matter to commonly encountered synthetic polymer, as …

Crystalline materials at elevated temperatures and pressures can exhibit properties more
reminiscent of simple liquids than ideal crystalline materials. Superionic crystalline materials …

Motivated by empirical observations suggesting that changes in the activation volume Δ V#
upon varying temperature (T), determined from the pressure (P) dependence of the …

Recent studies of structural relaxation in Cu–Zr metallic glass materials having a range of
compositions and over a wide range of temperatures and in crystalline UO 2 under …