Ultrastable glasses: new perspectives for an old problem

• DOI: 10.1007/s40766-022-00029-y
• Publication Date: 2022-03-11T08:02:52Z
• Authors: Cristian Rodrigue...; Marta Gonzalez-Si...; Miguel Angel Ramos; Javier Rodriguez-...
• Keywords: Supercooling; Thermal Stability; USable

Abstract Ultrastable glasses (mostly prepared from the vapor phase under optimized deposition conditions) represent a unique class of materials with low enthalpies and high kinetic stabilities. These highly stable dense show physicochemical properties, such as thermal stability, improved mechanical properties or anomalous transitions into supercooled liquid, offering unprecedented opportunities to understand many aspects glassy state. Their respect liquid-cooled also open new prospects their use in applications where failed not considered usable materials. In this review article we summarize state art vapor-deposited (and other) ultrastable focus on mechanism equilibration, transformation liquid temperature properties. The contains information organic, metallic, polymeric chalcogenide an updated list relevant all known today form glass.