Inverse vulcanization exploits S8 to synthesize polysulfides. However, evolution of products
and its mechanism during inverse vulcanization remains elusive. Herein, inverse …

The relaxation dynamics and the vibrational spectra of amorphous solids, such as metal
alloys, have been intensely investigated as well separated topics in the past. The aim of this …

The vibrational spectra of solids, both ordered and amorphous, in the low-energy regime,
control the thermal and transport properties of materials, from heat capacity to heat …

Topological defects are singularities within a field that cannot be removed by continuous
transformations. The definition of these irregularities requires an ordered reference …

An analytical derivation of the vibrational density of states (DOS) of liquids, and, in particular,
of its characteristic linear in frequency low-energy regime, has always been elusive because …

The microscopic mechanism by which amorphous solids yield plastically under an externally
applied stress or deformation has remained elusive in spite of enormous research activity in …

We combine hydrodynamic and field theoretic methods to develop a general theory of
phonons as Goldstone bosons in crystals, glasses, and liquids based on nonaffine …

The atomic-scale structural rearrangement of glasses on applied stress is central to the
understanding of their macroscopic mechanical properties and behaviour. However …

Experimental observations of unexpected shear rigidity in confined liquids, on very low
frequency scales on the order of 0.01 to 0.1 Hz, call into question our basic understanding of …

To overcome the long wavelength and time limits of classical elastic theory, this paper
presents a fractional nonlocal time-space viscoelasticity theory to incorporate the non …