Ivan Lyubimov

Recently, it has been shown both experimentally and computationally that the formation of remarkably kinetically stable glasses is possible. Such glassy materials have superior thermodynamic and mechanical properties that are of interest not only for applications and technology but also for the fundamentals of glass transition and supercooled liquid state.

Some of the focuses of our work are to understand the mechanisms and to validate the principle ideas of stable glass formation. We are developing an efficient way to obtain stable glasses by molecular dynamics simulations and other computational methods. Controlling the enhanced mobility of molecules can lead to more relaxed configurations and more easily form stable materials. Characterization and comparison of the stable glasses’ properties against ordinary glasses’ properties provide valuable insights and allow us to obtain sudden structural differences between ordinary and stable glasses.