Pattern and Disorder in Nonequilibrium Solids

9820816Canright该奖项支持非平衡凝聚态材料中模式和无序的理论建模研究。 PI建议将该项目集中在多型性，二维简单流体中的多形性以及生长过程中二维手征对称性破缺的静电机制等领域。 对多型性的研究将集中在将语言和自动机理论的思想应用于分析一系列分层材料中实验观察到的结构。 多晶性的研究将继续目前的工作，揭示了在这些系统中存在的六角形和各向同性类型的结构玻璃。 第三个项目的动机是最近在TCNQ和TCNQ+C60薄膜中观察到的新颖的二维手性生长形式。该奖项支持在无序和模式的材料远离平衡的理论研究。 该项目在三个主要重点地区建设。 首先，PI将应用一维离散系统数学模型的发展来分析分层材料的实验衍射测量。 潜在的适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. ***