Dynamic relaxation is an intrinsic and universal feature of glasses and enables fluctuation
and dissipation to occur, which induces plentiful behaviour, maintains equilibrium, and …

Complex materials are composed of basic units which invariably interact with anharmonic
potentials. It is well known that the dynamics of systems with anharmonic interaction are …

When cooled or pressurized, polymer melts exhibit a tremendous reduction in molecular
mobility. If the process is performed at a constant rate, the structural relaxation time of the …

Many emerging materials, such as ultrastable glasses, of interest for phone displays and
OLED television screens, owe their properties to a gradient of enhanced mobility at the …

Polymer coatings of nanometric thickness are about to enter in everyday life as part of a
wide range of applications such as protective layers, stimuli-responsive membranes or as …

The distinct preferential alignment, ie, horizontal orientation with respect to the substrate
plane, of the optical transition dipole moment vectors (TDMVs) of organic dye molecules is of …

Ultrastable glasses (mostly prepared from the vapor phase under optimized deposition
conditions) represent a unique class of materials with low enthalpies and high kinetic …

Over the past 30 years, atomic force microscopy (AFM) has played an important role in
elucidating the structure and properties of polymer surfaces. AFM-based techniques have …

Physical vapor deposition is commonly used to prepare organic glasses that serve as the
active layers in light-emitting diodes, photovoltaics, and other devices. Recent work has …

Design of bulk metallic glasses (BMGs) with excellent properties has been a long-sought
goal in materials science and engineering. The grand challenge has been scaling up the …