A theoretical perspective is provided on the glass transition in molecular liquids at thermal
equilibrium, on the spatially heterogeneous and aging dynamics of disordered materials …

Basic characteristics of the liquid-glass transition are reviewed, emphasizing its universality
and briefly summarizing the most popular phenomenological models. Discussion is focused …

Glass-ceramics are noted for their unusual combination of properties and manifold
commercialized products for consumer and specialized markets. Evolution of novel glass …

Vitrimers, strong organic glass formers, are covalent networks that are able to change their
topology through thermoactivated bond exchange reactions. At high temperatures, vitrimers …

Roughly at the time (1987) when the manuscript for the first three chapters of the present
book was completed, several breakthroughs occurred. They had a profound influence on the …

We present an analytical derivation of the volume fractions for random close packing (RCP)
in both d= 3 and d= 2, based on the same methodology. Using suitably modified nearest …

When we lower the temperature of a liquid, at some point we meet a first order phase
transition to the crystal. Yet, under certain conditions it is possible to keep the system in its …

We study the infinite temperature dynamics of a prototypical one-dimensional system
expected to exhibit many-body localization. Using numerically exact methods, we establish …

The laws of wetting are well known for drops on rigid surfaces but change dramatically when
the substrate is soft and deformable. The combination of wetting and the intricacies of soft …

The design of new glasses is often plagued by poorly efficient Edisonian “trial-and-error”
discovery approaches. As an alternative route, the Materials Genome Initiative has largely …