Modern computational studies of the glass transition

L Berthier, DR Reichman - Nature Reviews Physics, 2023 - nature.com
The physics of the glass transition and amorphous materials continues to attract the attention
of a wide research community after decades of effort. Supercooled liquids and glasses have …

Protecting proteins from desiccation stress using molecular glasses and gels

GI Olgenblum, BO Hutcheson, GJ Pielak… - Chemical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Faced with desiccation stress, many organisms deploy strategies to maintain the integrity of
their cellular components. Amorphous glassy media composed of small molecular solutes or …

Thirty milliseconds in the life of a supercooled liquid

C Scalliet, B Guiselin, L Berthier - Physical Review X, 2022 - APS
We combine the swap Monte Carlo algorithm to long multi-CPU molecular dynamics
simulations to analyze the equilibrium relaxation dynamics of model supercooled liquids …

The martini model in materials science

R Alessandri, F Grünewald, SJ Marrink - Advanced Materials, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The Martini model, a coarse‐grained force field initially developed with biomolecular
simulations in mind, has found an increasing number of applications in the field of soft …

Unveiling the multiscale dynamics of polymer vitrimers via molecular dynamics simulations

H Zhao, P Duan, Z Li, Q Chen, T Yue, L Zhang… - …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The multiscale dynamical behaviors of reversible cross-linked networks (vitrimers) are
investigated using coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulations, revealing that these …

[HTML][HTML] Progress towards a phenomenological picture and theoretical understanding of glassy dynamics and vitrification near interfaces and under nanoconfinement

KS Schweizer, DS Simmons - The Journal of chemical physics, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
The nature of alterations to dynamics and vitrification in the nanoscale vicinity of interfaces—
commonly referred to as “nanoconfinement” effects on the glass transition—has been an …

Influence of chain stiffness on the segmental dynamics and mechanical properties of cross-linked polymers

X Zheng, W Nie, Y Guo, JF Douglas, W **a - Macromolecules, 2023 - ACS Publications
We extend previous systematic investigations of a family of model coarse-grained polymer
network-forming materials by focusing on the influence of varying molecular rigidity on basic …

High-throughput molecular dynamics simulations and validation of thermophysical properties of polymers for various applications

MAF Afzal, AR Browning, A Goldberg… - ACS Applied Polymer …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Recent advances in graphics processing unit (GPU) hardware and improved efficiencies of
atomistic simulation programs allow for the screening of a large number of polymers to …

Nature of dynamic gradients, glass formation, and collective effects in ultrathin freestanding films

A Ghanekarade, AD Phan, KS Schweizer… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - pnas.org
Molecular, polymeric, colloidal, and other classes of liquids can exhibit very large, spatially
heterogeneous alterations of their dynamics and glass transition temperature when confined …

dPOLY: Deep learning of polymer phases and phase transition

D Bhattacharya, TK Patra - Macromolecules, 2021 - ACS Publications
Machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) have remarkable abilities to classify,
recognize, and characterize complex patterns and trends in large data sets. Here, we adopt …