Liquid fragility - A key to going deep into materials of glassy states

Chinese Science Bulletin

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 1-9

  Hu, Lina ^a   Bian, Xiufang ^a  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

Author keywords

Energy landscape; Glass transition; Liquid fragility; Structural relaxation

Indexed keywords

EID: 23244437876     PISSN: 10016538     EISSN: 18619541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1360/03we0137     Document Type: Review

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