A great success of solid state physics comes from the characterization of crystal structures in
the reciprocal (wave vector) space. The power of structural characterization in Fourier space …

The random first-order transition theory of the structural glass transition is reviewed in a
pedagogical fashion. The rigidity that emerges in crystals and glassy liquids is of the same …

Studying the local glass transition temperature T g across a boundary, we investigate the
characteristic length scales of cooperative dynamics. High molecular weight polymers have …

Colloids are suspensions of small solid particles in a liquid and exhibit glassy behavior
when the particle concentration is high. In these samples, the particles are roughly …

The properties of nanoconfined fluids can be strikingly different from those of bulk liquids. A
basic unanswered question is whether the equilibrium and dynamic consequences of …

In previous work we observed two simultaneous transitions in high molecular weight (MW)
free‐standing polystyrene films that were interpreted as two thickness‐dependent reduced …

We investigate bulk thermodynamic and microscopic structural properties of amorphous
solids in the framework of the phase-field crystal (PFC) model. These are metastable states …

It is widely believed that the breakdown of the Stokes-Einstein (SE) relation between the
translational diffusivity and the shear viscosity in supercooled liquids is due to the …

Recent theories predict that when a supercooled liquid approaches the glass transition,
particle clusters with a special “amorphous order” nucleate within the liquid, which lead to …

We use colloidal suspensions encapsulated in emulsion droplets to model confined glass-
forming liquids with tunable boundary mobility. We show that the dynamics in these …