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 …

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

The rate at which a nonequilibrium system decreases its free energy is commonly ascribed
to molecular relaxation processes, arising from spontaneous rearrangements at the …

The description of kinetics of physical aging, namely the slow evolution of a glass
thermodynamic state toward equilibrium, generally relies on the exclusive role of the main α …

The Meyer–Neldel compensation law, observed in a wide variety of chemical reactions and
other thermally activated processes, provides a proportionality between the entropic and the …

Understanding how glasses form, the so-called vitrification, remains a major challenge in
materials science. Here, we study vitrification kinetics, in terms of the limiting fictive …

Two challenging scientific disciplines, ie, the physics of glasses [Anderson, Science 267,
1615 (1995); Kennedy and Norman, Science 309, 75 (2005)] and interface chemistry …

Being composed of alternating soft segments and hard segments, thermoplastic
polyurethane (TPU) always displays complicated thermal behaviors on the heating scans …

Reducing the sample size can profoundly impact properties of bulk metallic glasses. Here,
we systematically reduce the length scale of Au and Pt-based metallic glasses and study …

Equilibration, the complex set of molecular rearrangements leading to more stable states, is
usually dominated by density fluctuations, occurring through the structural (α-) relaxation …