Origin of Ultrastability in Vapor-Deposited Glasses.

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2017-11

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Glass films created by vapor-depositing molecules onto a substrate can exhibit properties similar to those of ordinary glasses aged for thousands of years. It is believed that enhanced surface mobility is the mechanism that allows vapor deposition to create such exceptional glasses, but it is unclear how this effect is related to the final state of the film. Here we use molecular dynamics simulations to model vapor deposition and an efficient Monte Carlo algorithm to determine the deposition rate needed to create ultrastable glassy films. We obtain a scaling relation that quantitatively captures the efficiency gain of vapor deposition over bulk annealing, and demonstrates that surface relaxation plays the same role in the formation of vapor-deposited glasses as bulk relaxation does in ordinary glass formation.

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10.1103/physrevlett.119.188002

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Berthier, Ludovic, Patrick Charbonneau, Elijah Flenner and Francesco Zamponi (2017). Origin of Ultrastability in Vapor-Deposited Glasses. Physical review letters, 119(18). 10.1103/physrevlett.119.188002 Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10161/17092.

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Patrick Charbonneau

Professor of Chemistry

Professor Charbonneau studies soft matter. His work combines theory and simulation to understand the glass problem, protein crystallization, microphase formation, and colloidal assembly in external fields.


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