We start with a few concise definitions of the most important concepts discussed in this entry.
Glass transition For molecular liquids, the glass transition denotes a crossover from a …

A recent breakthrough in glass science has been the synthesis of ultrastable glasses via
physical vapor deposition techniques. These samples display enhanced thermodynamic …

The Adam-Gibbs (AG) relation connects the dynamics of a glass-forming liquid to its
thermodynamics via the configurational entropy and is of fundamental importance in …

We use computer simulations to probe the thermodynamic and dynamic properties of a
glass former that undergoes an ideal glass transition because of the presence of randomly …

Glasses exhibit spatially localized vibrations in the low-frequency regime. These localized
modes emerge below the boson peak frequency ω BP, and their vibrational densities of …

Enormous enhancement in the viscosity of a liquid near its glass transition is a hallmark of
glass transition. Within a class of theoretical frameworks, it is connected to growing many …

The hydrogen bonding ability of both water and methanol, together with the occurrence of
hydrophobic interactions, makes their solutions nonideal. This nonideality is reflected in both …

The diffusion dynamics of particles in heterogeneous media is studied using particle-based
simulation techniques. A special focus is placed on systems where the transport of particles …

We generalize the force-level, microscopic, Nonlinear Langevin Equation (NLE) theory and
its elastically collective generalization [elastically collective nonlinear Langevin equation …

Creating amorphous solid states by randomly bonding an ensemble of dense liquid
monomers is a common procedure that is used to create a variety of materials, such as …