Colloidal hard spheres: Triumphs, challenges, and mysteries

CP Royall, P Charbonneau, M Dijkstra, J Russo… - Reviews of Modern …, 2024‏ - APS
The simplicity of hard spheres as a model system is deceptive. Although the particles
interact solely through volume exclusion, that nevertheless suffices for a wealth of static and …

Lattice instabilities in metallic elements

G Grimvall, B Magyari-Köpe, V Ozoliņš… - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2012‏ - APS
Most metallic elements have a crystal structure that is either body-centered cubic (bcc), face-
centered close packed, or hexagonal close packed. If the bcc lattice is the …

[HTML][HTML] The bacterial cytoplasm has glass-like properties and is fluidized by metabolic activity

BR Parry, IV Surovtsev, MT Cabeen, CS O'hern… - Cell, 2014‏ - cell.com
The physical nature of the bacterial cytoplasm is poorly understood even though it
determines cytoplasmic dynamics and hence cellular physiology and behavior. Through …

The physics of the colloidal glass transition

GL Hunter, ER Weeks - Reports on progress in physics, 2012‏ - iopscience.iop.org
As one increases the concentration of a colloidal suspension, the system exhibits a dramatic
increase in viscosity. Beyond a certain concentration, the system is said to be a colloidal …

Three-dimensional direct imaging of structural relaxation near the colloidal glass transition

ER Weeks, JC Crocker, AC Levitt, A Schofield… - Science, 2000‏ - science.org
Confocal microscopy was used to directly observe three-dimensional dynamics of particles
in colloidal supercooled fluids and colloidal glasses. The fastest particles moved …

[ספר][B] The glass transition: relaxation dynamics in liquids and disordered materials

E Donth - 2013‏ - books.google.com
The glass transition is well known to glass makers or from the common ex perience of drying
a used chewing gum. A liquid melt or a rubber becomes a solid glass when its temperature …

Spatially heterogeneous dynamics investigated via a time-dependent four-point density correlation function

N Lačević, FW Starr, TB Schrøder… - The Journal of chemical …, 2003‏ - pubs.aip.org
Relaxation in supercooled liquids above their glass transition and below the onset
temperature of “slow” dynamics involves the correlated motion of neighboring particles. This …

The relationship of dynamical heterogeneity to the Adam-Gibbs and random first-order transition theories of glass formation

FW Starr, JF Douglas, S Sastry - The Journal of chemical physics, 2013‏ - pubs.aip.org
We carefully examine common measures of dynamical heterogeneity for a model polymer
melt and test how these scales compare with those hypothesized by the Adam and Gibbs …

Interfacial mobility scale determines the scale of collective motion and relaxation rate in polymer films

PZ Hanakata, JF Douglas, FW Starr - Nature communications, 2014‏ - nature.com
Thin polymer films are ubiquitous in manufacturing and medical applications, and there has
been intense interest in how film thickness and substrate interactions influence film …

Confocal microscopy of colloids

V Prasad, D Semwogerere… - Journal of Physics …, 2007‏ - iopscience.iop.org
Colloids have increasingly been used to characterize or mimic many aspects of atomic and
molecular systems. With confocal microscopy these colloidal particles can be tracked …