Dynamic relaxation is an intrinsic and universal feature of glasses and enables fluctuation
and dissipation to occur, which induces plentiful behaviour, maintains equilibrium, and …

We compare the atomic dynamics of the glass to that of the relevant crystal. In the spectra of
inelastic scattering, the boson peak of the glass appears higher than the transverse acoustic …

The mechanical reinforcement of polymer nanocomposites (PNCs) above the glass
transition temperature, T g, has been extensively studied. However, not much is known …

Despite the ever-increasing interest in multiscale porous materials, the chemophysical origin
of their thermal properties at the nanoscale and its connection to the macroscale properties …

Introduction: In light of the recent development of new soft materials, nanostructured self-
assembled systems have attracted attention in a variety of technological fields of high social …

We conduct experiments on two-dimensional packings of colloidal thermosensitive hydrogel
particles whose packing fraction can be tuned above the jamming transition by varying the …

Numerous experimental and computational studies have established that most liquids seem
to exhibit a remarkable, yet poorly understood, property termed “thermodynamic scaling”, in …

Recent experimental results on the dynamics of glass-forming materials, particularly
polymers, are surveyed. The focus is on aspects of the behavior that are connected to or …

Microscopic deformation processes determine defect formation on glass surfaces and, thus,
the material's resistance to mechanical failure. While the macroscopic strength of most …

Many polymers exhibit much steeper temperature dependence of their structural relaxation
time (higher fragility) than liquids of small molecules, and the mechanism of this unusually …