Dynamics of glasses below the glass transition

Nature

Volumn 386, Issue 6625, 1997, Pages 589-592

  Jerome B ^a   Commandeur, J ^a  

^a FOM INSTITUTE AMOLF   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLASS;

ARTICLE; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CRYSTALLIZATION; LIQUID; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLID;

EID: 0042328714     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/386589a0     Document Type: Article

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