Solid-that-Flows Picture of Glass-Forming Liquids

JC Dyre - The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 2024 - ACS Publications
This perspective article reviews arguments that glass-forming liquids are different from those
of standard liquid-state theory, which typically have a viscosity in the mPa· s range and …

Colloquium: Water's controversial glass transitions

K Amann-Winkel, R Böhmer, F Fujara, C Gainaru… - Reviews of Modern …, 2016 - APS
Water is the most common and, judged from its numerous anomalous properties, the
weirdest of all known liquids and the complexity of its pressure-temperature map is …

Elastically cooperative activated barrier hopping theory of relaxation in viscous fluids. I. General formulation and application to hard sphere fluids

S Mirigian, KS Schweizer - The Journal of chemical physics, 2014 - pubs.aip.org
We generalize the force-level nonlinear Langevin equation theory of single particle hopping
to include collective effects associated with long range elastic distortion of the liquid. The …

Generic structural relaxation in supercooled liquids

F Pabst, JP Gabriel, T Böhmer, P Weigl… - The Journal of …, 2021 - ACS Publications
One of the unsolved problems of dynamics in supercooled liquids are the differences in
spectral shape of the structural relaxation observed among different methods and …

Computational evidence for the crucial role of dipole cross-correlations in polar glass-forming liquids

K Koperwas, M Paluch - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
In this Letter, we analyze the dipole-dipole correlations obtained from the molecular
dynamics simulations for strongly and weakly polar model liquids. As a result, we find that …

Dipole-dipole correlations and the Debye process in the dielectric response of nonassociating glass forming liquids

F Pabst, A Helbling, J Gabriel, P Weigl, T Blochowicz - Physical Review E, 2020 - APS
The nonexponential shape of the α process observed in supercooled liquids is considered
as one of the hallmarks of glassy dynamics and has thus been under study for decades, but …

NMR relaxometry accessing the relaxation spectrum in molecular glass formers

M Becher, A Lichtinger, R Minikejew, M Vogel… - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
It is a longstanding question whether universality or specificity characterize the molecular
dynamics underlying the glass transition of liquids. In particular, there is an ongoing debate …

Universal behavior of dielectric responses of glass formers: Role of dipole-dipole interactions

M Paluch, J Knapik, Z Wojnarowska, A Grzybowski… - Physical Review Letters, 2016 - APS
From an exhaustive examination of the molecular dynamics in practically all van der Waals
molecular glass formers ever probed by dielectric spectroscopy, we found that the width of …

Supercooled liquids and glasses by dielectric relaxation spectroscopy

R Richert - Advances in Chemical Physics, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
The formation of a glassy disordered solid is usually observed upon cooling a melt when
crystallization can be avoided or when a system is incapable of crystallizing, as is the case …

Systematic differences in the relaxation stretching of polar molecular liquids probed by dielectric vs magnetic resonance and photon correlation spectroscopy

T Körber, R Stäglich, C Gainaru, R Böhmer… - The Journal of …, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
Relaxation spectra of molecular glass formers devoid of secondary relaxation maxima, as
measured by dielectric spectroscopy (DS), nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) relaxometry …