Yuanzheng Yue

TL;DR: This work presents a model offering an improved description of the viscosity–temperature relationship for both inorganic and organic liquids using the same number of parameters as VFT and AM, and casts doubt on the existence of a Kauzmann entropy catastrophe and associated ideal glass transition.

TL;DR: This paper presents a two-state statistical mechanical model of boron speciation in which addition of network modifiers leads to a competition between the formation of nonbridging oxygen and the conversion ofboron from trigonal to tetrahedral configuration, and derives a detailed topological representation of alkali-alkaline earth-borosilicate glasses that enables the accurate prediction of properties such as glass transition temperature, liquid fragility, and hardness.

TL;DR: It is shown how heating MOFs of zeolitic topology first results in a low density ‘perfect' glass, similar to those formed in ice, silicon and disaccharides, before a subsequent order–disorder transition, which creates a more fragile high-density liquid.

TL;DR: It is shown that hardness is governed by the number of network constraints at room temperature and that a critical number of constraints is required for a material to display mechanical resistance.

TL;DR: Detailed calorimetric characterizations of hyperquenched inorganic glasses that, when heated, do not crystallize before reaching their glass transition temperatures are reported, substantiating the conclusion that the glass transition of water cannot be probed directly.