Possible resolution of the Kauzmann paradox in supercooled liquids

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 68, Issue 1 1, 2003, Pages 115051-115058

  Tanaka, Hajime ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLIZATION; ENTROPY; GLASS TRANSITION; NUCLEATION; SUPERCOOLING; TEMPERATURE; THERMODYNAMIC STABILITY; THERMODYNAMICS;

KAUZMANN PARADOX;

LIQUIDS;

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