What Do We Learn from the Local Geometry of Glass-Forming Liquids?

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 89, Issue 12, 2002, Pages

  Starr, Francis W ^a   Sastry, Srikanth ^b   Douglas, Jack F ^a   Glotzer, Sharon C ^a,c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b JAWAHARLAL NEHRU CENTRE FOR ADVANCED SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH   (India)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DENSITY OF LIQUIDS; EXTRAPOLATION; GLASS; MOLTEN MATERIALS; NEUTRON SCATTERING; POLYMERS; RELAXATION PROCESSES; THERMAL EFFECTS;

GLASS-FORMING LIQUIDS; POLYMER MELTS;

MOLECULAR DYNAMICS;

EID: 0037120377     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.89.125501     Document Type: Article

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