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Low-Temperature Heat Transport under Phonon Confinement in Nanostructures
M. Sidorova, A. D. Semenov, A. Zaccone +5
Heat transport in bulk materials is well described using the Debye theory of 3D vibrational modes (phonons) and the acoustic match model. However, in cryogenic nanodevices, phonon…
Geometric indicators of local plasticity in glasses measured by scanning small-beam diffraction
Amelia C. Y. Liu, Huyen Pham, Arabinda Bera +7
The notion of defects in crystalline phases of matter has been extremely powerful for understanding crystal growth, deformation and melting. Many of these discontinuities in the pe…
Thickness-dependent conductivity of nanometric semiconductor thin films
Alessio Zaccone
The miniaturization of electronic devices has led to the prominence, in technological applications, of semiconductor thin films that are only a few nanometers thick. In spite of in…
Universality of Dynamic and Thermodynamic Behavior of Polymers near their Glass Transition
Valeriy V. Ginzburg, Oleg V. Gendelman, Riccardo Casalini +1
Describing the dynamics and thermodynamics of amorphous materials near the glass transition is a major challenge in soft-matter physics and polymer engineering. Here, we show that…
Convective Instability Driven by Diffusiophoresis of Colloids in Binary Liquid Mixtures
Carmine Anzivino, Klejdis Xhani, Marina Carpineti +3
In a binary fluid mixture, the concentration gradient of a heavier molecular solute leads to a diffusive flux of solvent and solute to achieve thermodynamic equilibrium. If the sol…
Unveiling the Asymmetry in Density within the Shear Bands of Metallic Glasses
Harald Rösner, Arabinda Bera, Alessio Zaccone
Plastic deformation in metallic glasses at room temperature leads to the development of shear bands due to shear localization. In many experiments, shear bands have shown local den…
Hedgehog topological defects in 3D amorphous solids
Arabinda Bera, Alessio Zaccone, Matteo Baggioli
The underlying structural disorder renders the concept of topological defects in amorphous solids difficult to apply and hinders a first-principle identification of the microscopic…
Timescale bridging in atomistic simulations of epoxy polymer mechanics using non-affine deformation theory
Vinay Vaibhav, Timothy W. Sirk, Alessio Zaccone
Developing a deep understanding of macroscopic mechanical properties of amorphous systems which lack structural periodicity, has posed a key challenge, not only at the level of the…
Quantum confinement theory of the heat capacity of thin films
Alessio Zaccone
A theory and mechanistic understanding of the thermal properties of solids under nanoscale confinement are currently missing. We develop a theoretical quantum confinement descripti…
Random close packing of binary hard spheres favors the stability of neutron-rich atomic nuclei
Carmine Anzivino, Vinay Vaibhav, Alessio Zaccone
In spite of the success of the Bethe-Weizsäcker mass formula in its modern numerical and predictive implementations, the common-knowledge principle that it is electrostatics which,…
Experimental identification of topological defects in 2D colloidal glass
Vinay Vaibhav, Arabinda Bera, Amelia C. Y. Liu +3
Topological defects are singularities within a field that cannot be removed by continuous transformations. The definition of these irregularities requires an ordered reference conf…
Explaining the thickness-dependent dielectric permittivity of thin films
Alessio Zaccone
The dielectric properties of thin films are of paramount important in a variety of technological applications, and of fundamental importance for solid state research. In spite of t…
Clustering of negative topological charge precedes plastic failure in 3D glasses
Arabinda Bera, Matteo Baggioli, Timothy C. Petersen +2
The deformation mechanism in amorphous solids subjected to external shear remains poorly understood because of the absence of well-defined topological defects mediating the plastic…