Theoretical concepts and experimental evidence of heterogeneity in glass-forming liquids
and polymers are reviewed. The main purpose is to provide an introduction to theoretical …

Faced with desiccation stress, many organisms deploy strategies to maintain the integrity of
their cellular components. Amorphous glassy media composed of small molecular solutes or …

Melting is well understood in terms of the Lindemann criterion, which essentially states that
crystalline materials melt when the thermal vibrations of their atoms become so vigorous that …

This book gives a pedagogical introduction to the physics of amorphous solids and related
disordered condensed matter systems. Important concepts from statistical mechanics such …

The recent demonstration of single-crystal organic optoelectronic devices has received
widespread attention,,,. But practical applications of such devices require the use of …

The nature of the transformation by which a supercooled liquid 'freezes' to a glass—the
glass transition—is a central issue in condensed matter physics,, but also affects many other …

Here we compile literature data for dynamic fragility m for six types of glass forming liquids:
polymers, small molecule organics, hydrogen bonding organics, inorganics, ionic and …

Particle engineering for biomedical applications has unfolded the roles of attributes such as
size, surface chemistry, and shape for modulating particle interactions with cells. Recently …

A calorimetric method of obtaining directly the fragility of liquids from the fictive temperatures
of variably quenched glasses, is outlined.“Steepness indexes” m, have been determined for …

Liquid silica is the archetypal glass former, and compounds based on silica are ubiquitous
as natural and man-made amorphous materials. Liquid silica is also the extreme case of a …