Amorphous solids, or glasses, are distinguished from crystalline solids by their lack of long-
range structural order. At the level of two-body structural correlations, glassformers show no …

Surfaces mediate the formation of stable glasses (SGs) upon physical vapor deposition
(PVD) for a wide range of glass formers. The thermodynamic and kinetic stability of SGs and …

Key to resolving the scientific challenge of the glass transition is to understand the origin of
the massive increase in viscosity of liquids cooled below their melting temperature (avoiding …

When a liquid is cooled, progress down the energy landscape is arrested near the glass
transition temperature T g. In principle, lower energy states can be accessed by waiting for …

It has long been thought that shear band (SB) formation in amorphous solids initiates from
relatively “soft” regions in the material in which large-scale non-affine deformations become …

Single-particle trajectories in supercooled liquids display long periods of localization
interrupted by “fast moves.” This observation suggests a modeling by a continuous-time …

We investigate the static and dynamic properties of a weakly polydisperse hard sphere
system in the deeply supercooled state, ie at densities higher than that corresponding to the …

We report the fabrication and study of thermal stability of atomically thin ZrCu-based metallic
glass films. The ultrathin films exhibit striking dynamic properties, ultrahigh thermal stability …

Cooperatively rearranging regions (CRRs) play a central role in the temperature
dependence of glass dynamics. We record real-time atomic resolution movies of individual …

Direct visualization of the dynamics of structural glasses and amorphous solids on the sub-
nanometer scale provides rich information unavailable from bulk or conventional single …