Influence of chain length on the α-β bifurcation in oligomeric glass formers

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 94, Issue 16, 2005, Pages

  Mattsson, J ^a,b   Bergman, R ^b   Jacobsson, P ^b   Borjesson L ^b  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIELECTRIC SPECTROSCOPY; GLASS TRANSITION DYNAMICS; OLIGO(PROPYLENE GLYCOL) DIMETHYL ETHERS; OLIGOMERIC GLASS FORMERS;

BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS); DIELECTRIC PROPERTIES; ETHERS; GLASS; GLASS TRANSITION; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; MONOMERS; RELAXATION PROCESSES; SPECTROSCOPIC ANALYSIS; THERMAL EFFECTS;

OLIGOMERS;

EID: 18244379843     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.165701     Document Type: Article

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