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theory of the structure and statistical mechanics of metallic glasses and investigations of "tethered surfaces,” which are two-dimensional generalizations of linear polymer chains. Flexural phonons lead a remarkable low temperature flat phase in these fishnet-like structures, with predictions of strongly scale-dependent elastic constants such as the two-dimensional Young's modulus and the bending rigidity of atomically or molecularly thin materials such as a free-standing sheets of graphene and MoS2.
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of matter, interposed between the usual solid and liquid phases. A variety of predictions associated with this two-state freezing process have now been confirmed in experiments on two-dimensional colloidal assemblies, thin films and bulk smectic liquid crystals. Nelson's research also includes a
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with a double major in physics and mathematics in 1972, and received an M.S. in theoretical physics in 1974, and a Ph.D. in theoretical physics in
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