Scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) has emerged as a uniquely powerful
tool for structural and functional imaging of materials on the atomic level. Driven by …

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

Grain boundaries (GBs) play an important role in the mechanical behavior of polycrystalline
materials. Despite decades of investigation, the atomic-scale dynamic processes of GB …

Correlating atomic configurations—specifically, degree of disorder (DOD)—of an amorphous
solid with properties is a long-standing riddle in materials science and condensed matter …

Over the past several decades, electron and scanning probe microscopes have become
critical components of condensed matter physics, materials science and chemistry research …

Since the first successful synthesis of graphene just over a decade ago, a variety of two-
dimensional (2D) materials (eg, transition metal-dichalcogenides, hexagonal boron-nitride …

Revealing the microscopic structural and dynamic pictures of glasses is a long-standing
challenge for scientists,. Extensive studies on the structure and relaxation dynamics of …

Two-dimensional materials with monolayer thickness and extreme aspect ratios are sought
for their high surface areas and unusual physicochemical properties. Liquid exfoliation is a …

Understanding the atomic-scale mechanisms that govern the structure of interfaces is critical
across materials systems but particularly so for two-dimensional (2D) moiré materials. Here …

Within the framework of transition state theory, the isothermal creep behavior of metallic
glasses is elucidated through a unique global approach, where the topological state is …