Release of free-volume bubbles by cooperative-rearrangement regions during the deposition growth of a colloidal glass

Vapor deposition can produce ultrastable glasses similar to conventional glasses aged over thousands of years. Here authors study deposition growth kinetics of a two-dimensional colloidal glass and report relatively frequent occurrence of large and anisotropic regions of cooperative rearrangements a...

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Main Authors: Xin Cao, Huijun Zhang, Yilong Han
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2017-08-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1038/s41467-017-00428-4