Dielectric relaxation in the fragile viscous liquid state of toluene

Journal of Chemical Physics

Volumn 107, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1740-1743

  Döß, Axel ^a   Hinze, Gerald ^a   Schiener, Bernd ^b   Hemberger, Joachim ^b   Böhmer, Roland ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLIZATION; ELECTRIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; GLASS TRANSITION; LIQUIDS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; TOLUENE; VISCOSITY;

ARRHENIUS LAW; DIELECTRIC LOSS; DIELECTRIC SPECTROSCOPY; FRAGILITY INDEX; SUPERCOOLED TOLUENE; VOGEL-FULCHER EQUATION;

DIELECTRIC RELAXATION;

EID: 0031559549     PISSN: 00219606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.474567     Document Type: Article

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