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Polymer glass transition occurs at the marginal rigidity point with connectivity z*=4
Anna Lappala, Alessio Zaccone, Eugene M. Terentjev
We re-examine the physical origin of the polymer glass transition from the point of view of marginal rigidity, which is achieved above a certain number of intermolecular contacts.…
Interatomic repulsion softness directly controls the fragility of supercooled metallic melts
Johannes Krausser, Konrad Samwer, Alessio Zaccone
We present an analytic scheme to connect the fragility and viscoelasticity of metallic glasses to the effective ion-ion interaction in the metal. This is achieved by an approximati…
Microscopic Origin of the Hofmeister Effect in Gelation Kinetics of Colloidal Silica
Marte van der Linden, Breanndán O. Conchúir, Elisabetta Spigone +3
The gelation kinetics of silica nanoparticles is a central process in physical chemistry, yet it is not fully understood. Gelation times are measured to increase by over 4 orders o…
Free energy of sheared colloidal glasses
M. T. Dang, V. Chikkadi, R. Zargar +4
We develop a free energy framework to describe the response of glasses to applied stress. Unlike crystals, for which the free energy increases quadratically with strain due to affi…