Pattern and Disorder in Nonequilibrium Solids

9820816 canright该奖项支持非平衡凝聚态材料的模式和无序的理论建模研究。PI建议将项目集中在多型性、二维简单流体中的多型性和生长过程中二维手性对称性破缺的静电机制方面。多型现象的研究将侧重于应用语言理论和自动机的思想来分析实验观察到的一系列层状材料的结构。多晶态的研究将继续当前的工作，揭示这些体系中存在六向和各向同性结构玻璃。第三个项目的动机是最近在TCNQ和TCNQ+C60薄膜中新的二维手性生长形式的实验观察。该奖项支持非平衡物质的无序和模式的理论研究。该项目建设在三个主要推力区域。首先，PI将应用一维离散系统数学模型的发展来分析层状材料的实验衍射测量。潜在的应用系统包括一系列具有层状结构的材料，从超导材料到云母和粘土等矿物。其他主题将研究降维材料中的模型玻璃相和降维系统中材料的生长机制。＊＊＊

9820816CanrightThis award supports research in theoretical modeling of patterns and disorder in nonequilibrium condensed matter materials. The PI proposes to concentrate the project in the areas of polytypism, polyamorphism in two-dimensional simple fluids, and electrostatic mechanisms for two-dimensional chiral symmetry breaking during growth. The study of polytypism will focus on applying ideas from the theory of language and automata to the analysis of experimentally observed structures in a range of layered materials. The study of polyamorphism will continue current work that revealed the existence of hexatic and isotropic types of structural glasses in these systems. The third project is motivated by the recent experimental observations of novel two-dimensional chiral growth forms in thin films of TCNQ and TCNQ+C60.%%%This award supports theoretical research in disorder and patterns in materials away from equilibrium. The project is constructed in three main thrust areas. In the first the PI will apply developments in mathematical models of one-dimensional, discrete systems to analyze the experimental diffraction measurements of layered materials. Potential systems of applicability include a range of materials with layered structures from superconducting materials to minerals such as mica and clays. The other topics will study model glassy phases in materials of reduced dimensionality and growth mechanisms of materials in systems with reduced dimensionality. ***