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SUBMITTER: Tian L
PROVIDER: S-EPMC9633806 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nature communications 20221103 1
Despite their technological relevance, a full microscopic understanding of glasses is still lacking. This applies even more to their surfaces whose properties largely differ from that of the bulk material. Here, we experimentally investigate the surface of a two-dimensional glass as a function of the effective temperature. To yield a free surface, we use an attractive colloidal suspension of micron-sized particles interacting via tunable critical Casimir forces. Similar to crystals, we observe s ...[more]