The research activities at the Structure and Dynamics of Complex Systems (SDCS) laboratory are focused on the experimental study of the interplay between structural and dynamical properties of a class of materials including liquids and glasses, soft matter, ceramics and disordered photonic systems. In fact, the relevant macroscopic properties of these materials (e.g. thermodynamic properties, transport coefficients, elastic moduli etc.) do not depend only on their structure or only on their dynamics but rather on their often complex interplay. These research activities aim at achieving a detailed understanding and eventually a tailored design of materials with predefined properties.
XVI International Workshop on Complex Systems: registration and abstract submission are now open
The XVI International Workshop on Complex Systems will take place at Andalo between the 13th and the 17th of March 2023. More in detail, it will start in the afternoon of Monday the 13th and end at lunchtime …
- 05/12/2022
Vibrational Dynamics of Non-Crystalline Solids
The boson peak (BP) is an excess of vibrational states over the Debye law appearing at terahertz frequencies. It is found in all glasses and marks the crossover between the long-wavelength behavior, where the solid …
- 30/09/2022
A lecture hall dedicated to our late friend and colleague Paolo Verrocchio
On June 29th, a lecture hall was dedicated to our late friend and colleague Paolo Verrocchio. The ceremony was held in the PovoZero building, home of the departments of Physics and Mathematics. In the presence …
- 06/07/2022
Impact of the Environment on the PNIPAM Dynamical Transition Probed by Elastic Neutron Scattering
By means of elastic incoherent neutron scattering, we investigated how the addition of stabilizing cosolvents (glycerol and glucose) affects the dynamics of hydrated PNIPAM chains at the pico- and nanosecond time scale, where a low-temperature …
- 01/06/2022
X-ray induced dynamics in borate glasses with different network connectivity
Hard x rays induce atomic dynamics in oxide glasses at doses low enough that the average structure is unchanged. X-ray photon correlation spectroscopy is used here to study this effect in a series of alkali …
- 28/03/2022
