Frustration on the way to crystallization in glass

Nature Physics

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 200-206

  Shintani, Hiroshi ^a   Tanaka, Hajime ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS; FREE ENERGY; GLASS; GROUND STATE; LIQUIDS; MELTING POINT;

CHARACTERISTIC SIZE; CRYSTALLINE ORDER; CRYSTALLINE REGIONS; DYNAMIC HETEROGENEITY; FREE ENERGY LANDSCAPE; LIQUID DYNAMICS; LIQUID GLASS TRANSITIONS; SUPERCOOLED STATE;

GLASS TRANSITION;

EID: 33645755595     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys235     Document Type: Article

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