Solving the multi-scale problem in materials mechanics: a pathway to chemical design

Project Information

Multimech

Grant agreement ID: 101043968

DOI

10.3030/101043968

EC signature date 18 July 2022

Start date 1 September 2022

End date 31 August 2027

Funded under

• European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 952 785,00

EU contribution

€ 952 785,00

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI MILANO
Italy

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (19)

Fragility and thermal expansion control crystal melting and the glass transition

Author(s): Alessio Zaccone, Konrad Samwer
Published in: The Journal of Chemical Physics, Issue 162, 2025, ISSN 0021-9606
Publisher: AIP Publishing
DOI: 10.1063/5.0253991

Time-Scale Bridging in Atomistic Simulations of Epoxy Polymer Mechanics Using Nonaffine Deformation Theory

Author(s): Vinay Vaibhav, Timothy W. Sirk, Alessio Zaccone
Published in: Macromolecules, 2024, ISSN 0024-9297
Publisher: American Chemical Society (ACS)
DOI: 10.1021/acs.macromol.4c01360

Journal of Chemical Physics

Author(s): Ankit Singh; Vinay Vaibhav; Timothy W. Sirk; Alessio Zaccone
Published in: The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2025, ISSN 0021-9606
Publisher: American Institute of Physics
DOI: 10.1063/5.0272171

Entropic timescales of dynamic heterogeneity in supercooled liquid

Author(s): Vinay Vaibhav; Suman Dutta
Published in: Crossref, 2024, ISSN 2470-0045
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2308.13720

Viscosity of polymer melts using non-affine theory based on vibrational modes

Author(s): Ankit Singh, Vinay Vaibhav, Alessio Zaccone
Published in: ArXiv, 2025, ISSN 2331-8422
Publisher: ArXiv
DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2503.02806

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Author(s): Anzivino, Carmine; Zaccone, Alessio
Published in: The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, 2023, ISSN 1948-7185
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.3c02007

Nature Physics

Author(s): Peter Lunkenheimer; Alois Loidl; Birte Riechers; Alessio Zaccone; Konrad Samwer
Published in: Nature Physics, 2023, ISSN 1745-2473
Publisher: Springer Nature
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2212.08612

Experimental identification of topological defects in 2D colloidal glass

Author(s): Vinay Vaibhav, Arabinda Bera, Amelia C. Y. Liu, Matteo Baggioli, Peter Keim, Alessio Zaccone
Published in: Nature Communications, Issue 16, 2025, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1038/S41467-024-54857-Z

Measurable geometric indicators of local plasticity in glasses

Author(s): Amelia C. Y. Liu, Huyen Pham, Arabinda Bera, Timothy C. Petersen, Timothy W. Sirk, Stephen T. Mudie, Rico F. Tabor, Juan Nunez-Iglesias, Alessio Zaccone, Matteo Baggioli
Published in: ArXiv, 2024, ISSN 2331-8422
Publisher: ArXiv
DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2410.09391

Soft spots of net negative topological charge directly cause the plasticity of 3D glasses

Author(s): Bera, Arabinda; Baggioli, Matteo; Petersen, Timothy C.; Liu, Amelia C. Y.; Zaccone, Alessio
Published in: PNAS Nexus, 2024, ISSN 2752-6542
Publisher: Oxford University Press
DOI: 10.1093/pnasnexus/pgae315

Can the noble metals (Au, Ag, and Cu) be superconductors?

Author(s): Giovanni Alberto Ummarino; Alessio Zaccone
Published in: Physical Review Materials, 2024, ISSN 2475-9953
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2406.16621

Relativistic theory of the viscosity of fluids across the entire energy spectrum

Author(s): Zaccone, Alessio
Published in: Physical Review E, 2024, ISSN 2470-0045
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2406.18434

Complete mathematical theory of the jamming transition: A perspective

Author(s): Alessio Zaccone
Published in: Journal of Applied Physics, Issue 137, 2025, ISSN 0021-8979
Publisher: AIP Publishing
DOI: 10.1063/5.0245684

Unveiling the asymmetry in density within the shear bands of metallic glasses

Author(s): Harald Rösner, Arabinda Bera, Alessio Zaccone
Published in: Physical Review B, Issue 110, 2024, ISSN 2469-9950
Publisher: American Physical Society (APS)
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.110.014107

Macromolecules

Author(s): Valeriy V. Ginzburg; Oleg V. Gendelman; Alessio Zaccone
Published in: Macromolecules, 2024, ISSN 0024-9297
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2311.09321

Hedgehog topological defects in 3D amorphous solids

Author(s): Arabinda Bera, Alessio Zaccone, Matteo Baggioli
Published in: Nature Communications, Issue 16, 2025, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1038/S41467-025-61103-7

Powder Technology

Author(s): A. Zaccone
Published in: Powder Technology, 2025, ISSN 0032-5910
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2502.03354

Controlled mechanical failure in glasses via designed spatial inhomogeneity

Author(s): Vinay Vaibhav; Jürgen Horbach; Pinaki Chaudhuri
Published in: Crossref, 2023, ISSN 2475-9953
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physrevmaterials.7.095601

General theory of the viscosity of liquids and solids from nonaffine particle motions

Author(s): Zaccone, Alessio
Published in: Crossref, 2023, ISSN 2470-0045
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2306.05771