Creating equilibrium glassy states via random particle bonding
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| author | Ozawa, Misaki Barrat, Jean-Louis Kob, Walter Zamponi, Francesco |
| author_facet | Ozawa, Misaki Barrat, Jean-Louis Kob, Walter Zamponi, Francesco |
| contents | Creating amorphous solid states by randomly bonding an ensemble of dense liquid monomers is a common procedure which is applied to create a variety of materials such as epoxy resins, colloidal gels, and vitrimers. The properties of the resulting solid do, however, {\it a priori} strongly depend on the preparation history. This can lead to substantial aging of the material, i.e., properties such as mechanical moduli and transport coefficients depend on the time elapsed since solidification, which can lead to a slow degradation of the material in technological applications. It is therefore important to understand under which conditions random monomer bonding can lead to stable solid states, i.e., long-lived metastable states whose properties do not change over time. In this work, we present a theoretical and computational analysis of this problem, and introduce a random bonding procedure that guarantees the proper equilibration of the resulting amorphous states. Our procedure also provides a new route to investigate the fundamental properties of glassy energy landscapes by producing translationally-invariant ultrastable glassy states of simple particle models. |
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| spellingShingle | Creating equilibrium glassy states via random particle bonding Ozawa, Misaki Barrat, Jean-Louis Kob, Walter Zamponi, Francesco Soft Condensed Matter Disordered Systems and Neural Networks Statistical Mechanics Creating amorphous solid states by randomly bonding an ensemble of dense liquid monomers is a common procedure which is applied to create a variety of materials such as epoxy resins, colloidal gels, and vitrimers. The properties of the resulting solid do, however, {\it a priori} strongly depend on the preparation history. This can lead to substantial aging of the material, i.e., properties such as mechanical moduli and transport coefficients depend on the time elapsed since solidification, which can lead to a slow degradation of the material in technological applications. It is therefore important to understand under which conditions random monomer bonding can lead to stable solid states, i.e., long-lived metastable states whose properties do not change over time. In this work, we present a theoretical and computational analysis of this problem, and introduce a random bonding procedure that guarantees the proper equilibration of the resulting amorphous states. Our procedure also provides a new route to investigate the fundamental properties of glassy energy landscapes by producing translationally-invariant ultrastable glassy states of simple particle models. |
| title | Creating equilibrium glassy states via random particle bonding |
| topic | Soft Condensed Matter Disordered Systems and Neural Networks Statistical Mechanics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.08079 |