Symposium BBB-Liquids and Glassy Soft Materials—Theoretical and Neutron Scattering Studies

Liquids, prototypical disordered condensed matters, are ubiquitous. Furthermore, when the temperature is lowered, many liquids can be supercooled and eventually vitrified into thermodynamically unstable but kinetically trapped glassy states. The phase behaviors of liquids and glasses are exceptionally rich, and in-depth understanding of them requires the development of new theoretical concepts and new experimental techniques. In addition, numerous soft and biological materials of amazing far-from-equilibrium complexity seem to share many intriguing features of liquids and glasses. Therefore, quantitative descriptions of the structure and dynamics of liquids and glassy soft materials and in-depth understanding of the nature of the glass transition will likely impact a wide range of disciplines in physics, chemistry, and materials science and engineering.

Due to the special scattering characteristics, neutrons have enabled a collection of powerful experimental tools, which provide detailed atomic spatial distributions as well as atomic dynamics. Historically, the quantitative treatment of liquids, such as using the intermediate scattering function, is largely influenced by early-age neutron scattering experiments. In the recent years, with the advent of the new generation of neutron sources around the world, it is possible to conduct elastic, quasi-elastic, and inelastic scattering experiments with extremely high accuracy, which, in principle, allows us to examine far more detailed predictions from theories and modeling than ever. This symposium will focus on the forefront of the liquids and glassy soft materials research and discuss the best practices of the cutting-edge neutron scattering experimental tools, as well as the related theories and multi-scale modeling and simulations.

• Unusual phase behavior of water and supercooled water
• Physics and chemistry of liquids under confinement or near interfaces
• Structure and transport properties of ionic liquids and their novel applications
• Atomic-scale structure and dynamics of metallic liquids and their vitrification
• Fluctuations and emergent ordering at complex interfaces and in complex fluids
• Polymers and intrinsically disordered biomolecular assemblies
• New theoretical perspectives and computational methods in liquids, supercooled liquids, and glasses

• BBB_Liquids and Glassy Soft Materials—Theoretical and Neutron Scattering Studies _0 (Laboratoire Léon Brillouin, France)
• BBB_Liquids and Glassy Soft Materials—Theoretical and Neutron Scattering Studies _1 (Arizona State University, USA)
• BBB_Liquids and Glassy Soft Materials—Theoretical and Neutron Scattering Studies _2 (University of Florence, Italy)
• BBB_Liquids and Glassy Soft Materials—Theoretical and Neutron Scattering Studies _3 (Argonne National Laboratory, USA)
• BBB_Liquids and Glassy Soft Materials—Theoretical and Neutron Scattering Studies _4 (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
• BBB_Liquids and Glassy Soft Materials—Theoretical and Neutron Scattering Studies _5 (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA)
• BBB_Liquids and Glassy Soft Materials—Theoretical and Neutron Scattering Studies _6 (University of Basque Country, Spain)
• BBB_Liquids and Glassy Soft Materials—Theoretical and Neutron Scattering Studies _7 (Princeton University, USA)
• BBB_Liquids and Glassy Soft Materials—Theoretical and Neutron Scattering Studies _8 (University of Wisconsin at Madison, USA)
• BBB_Liquids and Glassy Soft Materials—Theoretical and Neutron Scattering Studies _9 (National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA)
• BBB_Liquids and Glassy Soft Materials—Theoretical and Neutron Scattering Studies _10 (University of Chicago, USA)
• BBB_Liquids and Glassy Soft Materials—Theoretical and Neutron Scattering Studies _11 (Università Roma Tre, Italy)
• BBB_Liquids and Glassy Soft Materials—Theoretical and Neutron Scattering Studies _12 (Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, United Kingdom)
• BBB_Liquids and Glassy Soft Materials—Theoretical and Neutron Scattering Studies _13 (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
• BBB_Liquids and Glassy Soft Materials—Theoretical and Neutron Scattering Studies _14 (Washington University in St. Louis, USA)
• BBB_Liquids and Glassy Soft Materials—Theoretical and Neutron Scattering Studies _15 (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA)
• BBB_Liquids and Glassy Soft Materials—Theoretical and Neutron Scattering Studies _16 (Universite Paris-Est, France)
• BBB_Liquids and Glassy Soft Materials—Theoretical and Neutron Scattering Studies _17 (National Institute of Standards and Technology, USA)
• BBB_Liquids and Glassy Soft Materials—Theoretical and Neutron Scattering Studies _18 (University of Minnesota, USA)
• BBB_Liquids and Glassy Soft Materials—Theoretical and Neutron Scattering Studies _19 (Johns Hopkins University, USA)
• BBB_Liquids and Glassy Soft Materials—Theoretical and Neutron Scattering Studies _20 (University of Messina, Italy)
• BBB_Liquids and Glassy Soft Materials—Theoretical and Neutron Scattering Studies _21 (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA)
• BBB_Liquids and Glassy Soft Materials—Theoretical and Neutron Scattering Studies _22 (Pennsylvania State University, USA)
• BBB_Liquids and Glassy Soft Materials—Theoretical and Neutron Scattering Studies _23 (Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí, Mexico)
• BBB_Liquids and Glassy Soft Materials—Theoretical and Neutron Scattering Studies _24 (University of Utah, USA)
• BBB_Liquids and Glassy Soft Materials—Theoretical and Neutron Scattering Studies _25 (Stockholm University, Netherlands)
• BBB_Liquids and Glassy Soft Materials—Theoretical and Neutron Scattering Studies _26 (St. Francis Xavier University, Canada)
• BBB_Liquids and Glassy Soft Materials—Theoretical and Neutron Scattering Studies _27 (University of Washington, USA)
• BBB_Liquids and Glassy Soft Materials—Theoretical and Neutron Scattering Studies _28 (University of Houston, USA)
• BBB_Liquids and Glassy Soft Materials—Theoretical and Neutron Scattering Studies _29 (Jülich Centre for Neutron Science, Germany)
• BBB_Liquids and Glassy Soft Materials—Theoretical and Neutron Scattering Studies _30 (Johns Hopkins University, USA)
• BBB_Liquids and Glassy Soft Materials—Theoretical and Neutron Scattering Studies _31 (University of Massachusetts at Amherst, USA)
• BBB_Liquids and Glassy Soft Materials—Theoretical and Neutron Scattering Studies _32 (University of Göttingen, Germany)
• BBB_Liquids and Glassy Soft Materials—Theoretical and Neutron Scattering Studies _33 (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
• BBB_Liquids and Glassy Soft Materials—Theoretical and Neutron Scattering Studies _34 (Università di Roma La Sapienza, Italy)
• BBB_Liquids and Glassy Soft Materials—Theoretical and Neutron Scattering Studies _35 (Oak Ridge National Laboratory and University of Tennessee, USA)
• BBB_Liquids and Glassy Soft Materials—Theoretical and Neutron Scattering Studies _36 (Oak Ridge National Laboratory and University of Tennessee, USA)
• BBB_Liquids and Glassy Soft Materials—Theoretical and Neutron Scattering Studies _37 (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA)
• BBB_Liquids and Glassy Soft Materials—Theoretical and Neutron Scattering Studies _38 (University of Delaware, USA)
• BBB_Liquids and Glassy Soft Materials—Theoretical and Neutron Scattering Studies _39 (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
• BBB_Liquids and Glassy Soft Materials—Theoretical and Neutron Scattering Studies _40 (City University of Hong Kong, China)
• BBB_Liquids and Glassy Soft Materials—Theoretical and Neutron Scattering Studies _41 (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
• BBB_Liquids and Glassy Soft Materials—Theoretical and Neutron Scattering Studies _42 (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)