Slow Dynamics

In the last few years, novel theoretical and experimental developments have significantly advanced our understanding of slow dynamics in viscous liquids, glasses, gels, and other dense, disordered materials. These systems are often relevant for technological applications and can exhibit intriguing slow and complex dynamical behavior driven by mechanisms as different as packing, energy, bonding, mesoscopic ordering, and free-energy fluxes. The special issue will include experimental and theoretical/simulation papers exploring the chemical physics of these systems.

Guest Editors: Paddy Royall, Andrea Liu, and Emanuela Del Gado with JCP Editors Mark Ediger, David Reichman, Francesco Sciortino, and Carlos Vega