Total synthesis of colloidal matter

T Hueckel, GM Hocky, S Sacanna - Nature Reviews Materials, 2021 - nature.com
Atoms serve as an inspiration for colloidal self-assembly, whereby building blocks can
combine and confer endless functionality using a few design principles, including …

Single-molecule investigations of morphology and mass transport dynamics in nanostructured materials

DA Higgins, SC Park, KH Tran-Ba… - Annual Review of …, 2015 - annualreviews.org
Nanostructured materials such as mesoporous metal oxides and phase-separated block
copolymers form the basis for new monolith, membrane, and thin film technologies having …

[HTML][HTML] Spatially heterogeneous dynamics in a metallic glass forming liquid imaged by electron correlation microscopy

P Zhang, JJ Maldonis, Z Liu, J Schroers… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Supercooled liquids exhibit spatial heterogeneity in the dynamics of their fluctuating atomic
arrangements. The length and time scales of the heterogeneous dynamics are central to the …

Single molecule demonstration of Debye–Stokes–Einstein breakdown in polystyrene near the glass transition temperature

NL Mandel, S Lee, K Kim, K Paeng… - Nature communications, 2022 - nature.com
Rotational-translational decoupling, in which translational motion is apparently enhanced
over rotational motion in violation of Stokes-Einstein (SE) and Debye-Stokes-Einstein (DSE) …

Ideal probe single-molecule experiments reveal the intrinsic dynamic heterogeneity of a supercooled liquid

K Paeng, H Park, DT Hoang… - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - National Acad Sciences
The concept of dynamic heterogeneity and the picture of the supercooled liquid as a mosaic
of environments with distinct dynamics that interchange in time have been invoked to …

Understanding the origin of the breakdown of the Stokes–Einstein relation in supercooled water at different temperature–pressure conditions

V Dubey, S Erimban, S Indra… - The Journal of Physical …, 2019 - ACS Publications
A recent experiment has measured the viscosity of water down to approximately 244 K and
up to 300 MPa. The correct viscosity and translational diffusivity data at various temperature …

Decoupling of translational diffusion from the viscosity of supercooled water: Role of translational jump diffusion

S Dueby, V Dubey… - The Journal of Physical …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Some experiments have witnessed gradual decoupling of viscosity from the translational self-
diffusion of supercooled water with decreasing temperature. This indicates the breakdown of …

Plasticization of poly (vinylpyrrolidone) thin films under ambient humidity: Insight from single-molecule tracer diffusion dynamics

S Bhattacharya, DK Sharma, S Saurabh… - The Journal of …, 2013 - ACS Publications
Studies on diffusion dynamics of single molecules (SMs) have been useful in revealing
inhomogeneity of polymer thin films near and above the glass-transition temperature (T g) …

Segmental dynamics of an isolated component polymer chain in polymer blends near the glass transition

H Lee, T Kim, S Choi, J Yang, M Kim, K Paeng - Macromolecules, 2023 - ACS Publications
The segmental dynamics of a component chain isolated in its blending partner chains is
examined using the reorientation of polymer-tethered fluorescent probes near the glass …

Understanding slow and heterogeneous dynamics in model supercooled glass-forming liquids

I Tah, A Mutneja, S Karmakar - ACS omega, 2021 - ACS Publications
Glasses are ubiquitous in nature. Many common items such as ketchups, cosmetic products,
toothpaste, etc. and metallic glasses are examples of such glassy materials whose …