We calculate the statistical properties of the energy landscape of a minimal model for strong network-forming liquids. Dynamic and thermodynamic properties of this model can be computed with arbitrary precision even at low temperatures. A degenerate disordered ground state and logarithmic statistics for the local minima energy distribution are the landscape signatures of strong liquid behavior....

The objective of the study was to determine the most suitable cyst forming media in liquid conditions. Encystation in Azospirillum brasilense Cd was observed by using routine laboratory staining and microscopy. Best encystment occurred in liquid or semisolid media containing fructose (8 mM) and KNO3(0.5 mM). The encysted forms consisted of a central body filled with poly-β -hydroxybutyric acid ...

Morphological instability, particularly dendrite formation, can cause potentially catastrophic failure in rechargeable batteries. Morphological instabilities can lower the quality of electroplated coatings, yet may also be useful in forming porous deposits. Thus, it is important to develop strategies to control these instabilities. Liquid cell electron microscopy allows us to image in real time...

Molecular dynamics results for the dynamic Prigogine-Defay ratio are presented for two glass-forming liquids, thus evaluating the experimentally relevant quantity for testing whether metastable-equilibrium liquid dynamics is described by a single parameter to a good approximation. For the Kob-Andersen binary Lennard-Jones mixture as well as for an asymmetric dumbbell model liquid, a single-para...

Concentrated solutions of ultrashort duplex-forming DNA oligomers may develop various forms of liquid crystal ordering among which is the chiral nematic phase, characterized by a macroscopic helical precession of molecular orientation. The specifics of how chirality propagates from the molecular to the mesoscale is still unclear, both in general and in the case of DNA-based liquid crystals. We ...

Smectic liquid crystals vividly illustrate the subtle interplay of broken translational and orientational symmetries, by exhibiting defect structures forming geometrically perfect confocal ellipses and hyperbolas. Here, we develop and numerically implement an effective theory to study the dynamics of focal conic domains in smectic-A liquid crystals. We use the information about the smectic's st...

We investigate theoretically the phase behavior of particles with limited valence in two dimensions, by solving the first-order Wertheim theory form. As previously found for three dimensions, in two dimensions also the valence has a strong impact on the phase diagram, controlling the location of the gas-liquid coexistence. On decreasing the valence, the critical density and temperature decrease...