Identifying microscopic factors that influence ductility in disordered solids

H ** and characterizing colloidal microplastics
F Mukherjee, A Shi, X Wang, F You, NL Abbott - Small, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Identifying and removing microplastics (MPs) from the environment is a global challenge.
This study explores how the colloidal fraction of MPs assemble into distinct 2D patterns at …

Thermal failure of diamond tools indicated by diamond degradation: Damage evaluation and property prediction on small image datasets

W Sun, H Gao, Y Chen, Z Wang, L Duan, S Tan… - … Applications of Artificial …, 2023 - Elsevier
High temperature induced diamond degradation often leads to the failure of diamond tools.
In this work, diamond samples holding different degrees of thermal damage were prepared …

Predicting the pathways of string-like motions in metallic glasses via path-featurizing graph neural networks

Q Wang, LF Zhang, ZY Zhou, HB Yu - Science Advances, 2024 - science.org
String-like motions (SLMs)—cooperative,“snake”-like movements of particles—are crucial for
dynamics in diverse glass formers. Despite their ubiquity, questions persist: Do SLMs prefer …

Non-equilibrium nature of fracture determines the crack paths

P Shi, S Feng, Z Xu - Extreme Mechanics Letters, 2024 - Elsevier
Local kinetic processes during crack growth are non-equilibrium and discrete and thus
cannot be resolved in the framework of continuum thermodynamics. Atomistic modeling …

Roadmap on machine learning glassy dynamics

G Jung, RM Alkemade, V Bapst, D Coslovich… - Nature Reviews …, 2025 - nature.com
Unravelling the connections between microscopic structure, emergent physical properties
and slow dynamics has long been a challenge when studying the glass transition. The …

[HTML][HTML] Strength of 2D glasses explored by machine-learning force fields

P Shi, Z Xu - Journal of Applied Physics, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
The strengths of glasses are intricately linked to their atomic-level heterogeneity. Atomistic
simulations are frequently used to investigate the statistical physics of this relationship …