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 …

Understanding the microscopic mechanism of the transition of glass remains one of the most
challenging topics in Condensed Matter Physics. What controls the sharp slowing down of …

We provide a theoretical description of dynamical heterogeneities in glass-forming liquids,
based on the premise that relaxation occurs via local rearrangements coupled by elasticity …

The present work studies the mechanisms controlling the energy barrier for ion hopping in
conducting polymers. Polymer electrolytes usually show Arrhenius-like temperature …

The conventional understanding of the glass transition is that the transition from glass to
liquid appears as a dynamic process in which atoms or molecules relax cooperatively into …

The variation of polymer topology provides an alternative way to tune the properties of
polymer materials without varying the chemistry of the monomers composing the polymer …

Numerous experimental and computational studies have established that most liquids seem
to exhibit a remarkable, yet poorly understood, property termed “thermodynamic scaling”, in …

Several theories of the glass transition propose that the structural relaxation time τ α is
controlled by a growing static length scale ξ that is determined by the free energy landscape …

The emergence of the solid state in glass-forming materials upon cooling is accompanied by
changes in both thermodynamic and viscoelastic properties and by a precipitous drop in …

This article gives an overview of experimental results on dynamics in bulk glass-forming
molecular liquids. Rather than looking for phenomenology that is universal, in the sense that …