The deformation and flow of disordered solids, such as metallic glasses and concentrated
emulsions, involves swift localized rearrangements of particles that induce a long-range …

The physics of sliding friction is gaining impulse from nanoscale and mesoscale
experiments, simulations, and theoretical modeling. This Colloquium reviews some recent …

We provide a theoretical description of dynamical heterogeneities in glass-forming liquids,
based on the premise that relaxation occurs via local rearrangements coupled by elasticity …

We study the role of elasticity-induced facilitation on the dynamics of glass-forming liquids by
a coarse-grained two-dimensional model in which local relaxation events, taking place by …

The studies on dynamics and deformation in glassy materials are particularly challenging
because of their strongly disordered atomic structure. Here, by probing the changes in the …

The art of making structural, polymeric, and metallic glasses is rapidly develo** with many
applications. A limitation is that under increasing external strain all amorphous solids (like …

This paper presents an overview of recent advances in understanding the role of the
amorphous state in the physical and chemical transformations of pharmaceutical materials …

Proteins constitute the building blocks of biological materials such as tendon, bone, skin,
spider silk or cells. An important trait of these materials is that they display highly …

A number of recent studies have shown that mechanical stress can significantly lower or
raise the activation barrier of a chemical reaction. Within a common approximation due to …

While glasses are ubiquitous in natural and manufactured materials, the atomic-level
mechanisms governing their deformation and how these mechanisms relate to rheological …