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Glass Science Symposium                                

This symposium focuses on efforts to develop a basic understanding of the glassy state and its behavior, beginning with an evaluation of structure at the atomic scale.  Innovation in both computational modeling and in experimental approach can provide an effective strategy to elucidate the structural and dynamic nature of glass and its impact on bulk, surface, and interfacial properties.  The symposium will explore these areas through sessions including, but not limited to:

Theoretical and Numerical Modeling

Glass Structure

Dynamics in Glasses and Glassforming Liquids

Cell and Protein Interactions With Glass

Glass Science Symposium Session Organizers  

Glass Science Symposium Sessions

1.  Theoretical and Numerical Modeling

 L. Rene Corrales (Univ. of Arizona; Tucson, AZ, USA; lrcorral@email.arizona.edu) and John C. Mauro (Corning, Inc.; Corning, NY, USA; mauroj@corning.com).

This session will highlight significant new findings occurring throughout the scientific community, fueled by novel theoretical insights, new computational methods, and modern computing platforms. It aims to bring together researchers from different scientific backgrounds to share insights into several critical research areas of theoretical glass science including thermodynamics and kinetics of glass-forming systems (nucleation and crystal growth, dynamical heterogeneities, polyamorphic transitions, glass transitions), structure of glass (Ab initio and classical atomistic simulations, mesoscopic modeling, interfacial structure, impact of structure on glass properties) and simulation of photon-matter interactions.

2. Glass Structure

Randall E. Youngman (Corning, Inc.; Corning, NY, USA; youngmanre@corning.com)

This session, as part of the Glass Science Symposium, will include structural and structure/property studies on a wide variety of oxide and non-oxide glasses.  Short- and intermediate-range structure from NMR, vibrational spectroscopies and synchrotron methods will be featured.

3.  Dynamics in Glasses and Glassforming Liquids

David L. Sidebottom (Creighton Univ.; Omaha, NE, USA;  sidebottom@creighton.edu)

Disordered materials commonly display non-exponential relaxation that hints at an underlying pattern of correlated motion occurring in these systems. These include not only the bulk (primary) viscoelastic relaxation of glassforming melts, but also secondary mechanical and electrical relaxations of the amorphous solid involving internal motions associated with local relaxation and ion migration.  In some instances these relaxations are influenced by the chemical structure.  The session will furnish an opportunity for the dissemination and discussion of new findings in these general areas, providing further insight into the fundamental nature and mechanisms of this important class of glassy-state behaviors.

 4. Cell and Protein Interactions With Glass

Alexis G. Clare (Alfred Univ.; Alfred, NY, USA; clare@alfred.edu) and Mark Riley (Univ. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA; riley@ag.arizona.edu).

This session will present recent developments in methods and characterization of molecular level interactions between cells and proteins with glass.  Applications of such hybrid materials will also be discussed.