Nature Communications (Aug 2018)

Local structure in deeply supercooled liquids exhibits growing lengthscales and dynamical correlations

  • James E. Hallett,
  • Francesco Turci,
  • C. Patrick Royall

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05371-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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The glass transition remains an unsolved problem due to the scarcity of particle-resolved data over a large dynamic range. Hallett et al. probe an unprecedented time window and show a strong correlation between local structure and slow dynamics in a deeply supercooled liquid of colloids.