Control of the fragility of a glass-forming liquid using the liquid-liquid phase transition

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 95, Issue 6, 2005, Pages

  Kurita, Rei ^a   Tanaka, Hajime ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATERIAL-SPECIFIC QUANTITY; ORDER PARAMETER; SUPER-ARRHENIUS BEHAVIOR;

GLASS TRANSITION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PHASE TRANSITIONS; RELAXATION PROCESSES;

GLASS;

EID: 27144492611     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.95.065701     Document Type: Article

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