Polymer coatings of nanometric thickness are about to enter in everyday life as part of a
wide range of applications such as protective layers, stimuli-responsive membranes or as …

Ultrastable glasses (mostly prepared from the vapor phase under optimized deposition
conditions) represent a unique class of materials with low enthalpies and high kinetic …

Two challenging scientific disciplines, ie, the physics of glasses [Anderson, Science 267,
1615 (1995); Kennedy and Norman, Science 309, 75 (2005)] and interface chemistry …

Surface diffusion is vastly faster than bulk diffusion in some glasses, but only moderately
enhanced in others. We show that this variation is closely linked to bulk fragility, a common …

The method of surface grating decay has been used to measure surface diffusion in the
glasses of two rod-like molecules posaconazole (POS) and itraconazole (ITZ). Although …

In this Perspective, the authors have examined various principles associated with the
isothermal crystallization of organic molecules from the amorphous state. The major …

We investigate vapor-deposited glasses of a phenanthroperylene ester, known to form an
equilibrium hexagonal columnar phase, and show that liquid crystal-like order can be …

We show that deposition rate substantially affects the anisotropic structure of thin glassy
films produced by physical vapor deposition. Itraconazole, a glass-forming liquid crystal, was …

The amorphous form of a drug usually exhibits higher solubility, faster dissolution rate, and
improved oral bioavailability in comparison to its crystalline forms. However, the amorphous …

The density, degree of molecular orientation, and molecular layering of vapor-deposited
stable glasses (SGs) vary with substrate temperature (T dep) below the glass-transition …