Fission-track annealing models aim to extrapolate laboratory kinetics the geological timescale for application studies. Model trends empirically capture mechanisms of track length reduction. To facilitate interpretation fission-track trends, a formalism, based on quantities already in use study physicochemical processes, is developed and allows calculation rate constants, Arrhenius activation e...

We have investigated the relaxational dynamics for a protein model at various temperatures. Theoretical analysis of this model in conjunction with numerical simulations suggests several relaxation regimes, including a single exponential, a power law and a logarithmic time dependence. Even though a stretched exponential form gives a good fit to the simulation results in the crossover regime betw...

Extreme non-Arrhenius dependence of the ionic conductivity in optimized fast ion conducting glasses has been observed. When all the chemical factors controlling the ionic conductivity in glass have been optimized, the conductivity fails to reach the values expected, >0.1 (Ωcm)−1 at 298 K. A new series of glasses zAgI+(1−z) [0.525Ag2S+0.475B2S3:SiS2] have been measured for the first time and are...

Accelerated and stress stability data is often used to predict shelf life of pharmaceuticals. Temperature, combined with humidity accelerates chemical decomposition and the Arrhenius equation is used to extrapolate accelerated stability results to long-term stability. Statistical estimation of the humidity-corrected Arrhenius equation is not straightforward due to its non-linearity. A two stage...

Super-Arrhenius relaxation rates in glassy materials can be associated with thermally activated rearrangements of increasing numbers of molecules at decreasing temperatures. We explore a model of such a mechanism in which stringlike fluctuations in the neighborhood of shear transformation zones provide routes along which rearrangements can propagate, and the entropy associated with critically l...

Luis A. Zepeda-Ruiz,1,2,* Jörg Rottler,1 Seungwu Han,1,† Graeme J. Ackland,3 Roberto Car,1 and David J. Srolovitz1 1Princeton Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials (PRISM), Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA 2Chemistry and Materials Science Directorate, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, P.O. Box 808, L-371, Livermore, California 94550, USA 3School of Ph...