Liquids cooled towards the glass transition temperature transform into amorphous solids that have a wide range of applications. While the nature of this transformation is understood rigorously in the
Free volume theory has successfully predicted and described all of the liquid-to-solid transitions in hard sphere system. However, in polymer system, the exact molecular picture...
The microscopic structure of a dilute solution of LiCl in water is determined at different thermodynamic states in both the liquid and glassy phases. This solution exhibits...
The glass transition is an out of equilibrium transition from the fluid to a disordered solid obtained at very high volume fractions. The glass transition is a dynamical arrested transition where coll
Small-molecule diluents are important tools in the control of polymers’ glass formation, transport, and mechanical properties. While recent work has indicated that these diluents can impose a more div