Revealing key structural features hidden in liquids and glasses

H Tanaka, H Tong, R Shi, J Russo - Nature Reviews Physics, 2019 - nature.com
A great success of solid state physics comes from the characterization of crystal structures in
the reciprocal (wave vector) space. The power of structural characterization in Fourier space …

Dynamics of resonant x-ray and Auger scattering

F Gel'mukhanov, M Odelius, SP Polyutov… - Reviews of Modern …, 2021 - APS
An overview of both experimental and theoretical results in the field of resonant scattering of
tunable soft and hard x-ray radiation is presented, with a main focus on the closely related …

[HTML][HTML] Liquid–liquid transition and polyamorphism

H Tanaka - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
Two or more liquid states may exist even for single-component substances, which is known
as liquid polymorphism, and the transition between them is called liquid–liquid transition …

The anomalies and criticality of liquid water

R Shi, H Tanaka - Proceedings of the National Academy of …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
The origin of water's anomalies has been a matter of long-standing debate. A two-state
model, dating back to Röntgen, relies on the dynamical coexistence of two types of local …

Advances in the study of supercooled water

P Gallo, J Bachler, LE Bove, R Böhmer… - The European Physical …, 2021 - Springer
In this review, we report recent progress in the field of supercooled water. Due to its
uniqueness, water presents numerous anomalies with respect to most simple liquids …

Autonomously revealing hidden local structures in supercooled liquids

E Boattini, S Marín-Aguilar, S Mitra, G Foffi… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Few questions in condensed matter science have proven as difficult to unravel as the
interplay between structure and dynamics in supercooled liquids. To explore this link, much …

Reversible structural transformations in supercooled liquid water from 135 to 245 K

L Kringle, WA Thornley, BD Kay, GA Kimmel - Science, 2020 - science.org
A fundamental understanding of the unusual properties of water remains elusive because of
the limited data at the temperatures and pressures needed to decide among competing …

Ice is born in low-mobility regions of supercooled liquid water

M Fitzner, GC Sosso, SJ Cox… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
When an ice crystal is born from liquid water, two key changes occur:(i) The molecules order
and (ii) the mobility of the molecules drops as they adopt their lattice positions. Most …

Direct evidence in the scattering function for the coexistence of two types of local structures in liquid water

R Shi, H Tanaka - Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2020 - ACS Publications
Water is the essential liquid on earth since it not only plays vital roles in living systems but
also has a significant impact on our daily life from various industrial applications to earth's …

The physics of empty liquids: From patchy particles to water

J Russo, F Leoni, F Martelli… - Reports on Progress in …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Empty liquids represent a wide class of materials whose constituents arrange in a random
network through reversible bonds. Many key insights on the physical properties of empty …