Structure and Dynamics of Metastable Materials

哥伦比亚大学的大卫赖希曼得到了理论和计算化学项目的一个奖项的支持，他将研究用于研究过冷液体、玻璃和其他软材料的理论技术的发展。 PI和他的团队正在研究过冷液体中结构和动力学之间的联系，开发理论方法来计算接近玻璃化转变的时间相关函数，并承担开发过冷液体中动力学不均匀性的标度特性的精确阐述，并将研究纳米粒子和胶体系统中的自组装。 这项工作对包括材料科学和生物学在内的许多不同领域产生了更广泛的影响。

David Reichmann of Columbia University is supported by an award from the Theoretical and Computational Chemistry program to carry out research on the development of theoretical techniques for the study of supercooled liquids, glasses, and other soft materials. The PI and his group are studying the connection between structure and dynamics in supercooled liquids, developing theoretical approaches to calculate time correlation functions close to the glass transition, and undertaking the development of a precise exposition of the scaling properties of dynamical heterogeneity in supercooled liquids, and will study self-assembly in nanoparticle and colloidal systems. The work is having a broader impact on a number of different fields including materials science and biology.