Computer simulation approaches in biomolecular recognition processes have come a long
way. In this Perspective, we highlight a series of recent success stories in which computer …

The atomic-scale structural rearrangement of glasses on applied stress is central to the
understanding of their macroscopic mechanical properties and behaviour. However …

To distinguish between order and disorder is of fundamental importance to understanding
solids. It becomes more significant with recent observations that solids with high structural …

Stress-strain constitutive relations in solids with an internal angular degree of freedom can
be modeled using Cosserat (also called micropolar) elasticity. In this paper, we explore …

Molecular dynamics computer simulations of a polydisperse soft-sphere model under shear
are presented. The starting point for these simulations are deeply supercooled samples far …

We present a theoretical derivation of acoustic phonon damping in amorphous solids based
on the nonaffine response formalism for the viscoelasticity of amorphous solids. The …

Customarily, crystalline solids are defined to be rigid since they resist changes of shape
determined by their boundaries. However, rigid solids cannot exist in the thermodynamic …

Experiments and simulations show that when an initially defect-free rigid crystal is subjected
to deformation at a constant rate, irreversible plastic flow commences at the so-called yield …

We present results of a coherent x-ray diffractive imaging experiment performed on a single
colloidal crystal grain. The full three-dimensional (3D) reciprocal space map measured by …

Amphiphiles self-assemble into a variety of bicontinuous mesophases whose equilibrium
structures take the form of high-symmetry cubic networks. Here, we show that the symmetry …