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ERC Starting Grant · 2020

A coherent view of Glasses: How coherent x-rays can elucidate the complex dynamics of glasses

Glasses are mysterious materials. Fundamental blocks in many natural and technological processes, still, their properties keep puzzling a large community of scientists nowadays. Following different experimental routes, materials as diverse as colloidal suspensions, emulsions and viscous liquids can be driven in an out-of-equilibrium state, where they solidify under conditions that still remain unknown. This process, traditionally called glass transition, leads to many intriguing phenomena as the emergence of multiple relaxations processes, dynamical heterogeneities, crossovers between distinct amorphous states, and uncommon mechanisms of particle motions. Within the large family of…

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