Route to calculate the length scale for the glass transition in polymers

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

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Cangialosi, D ^a   Alegria A ^b,c   Colmenero, J ^a,b,c  

^a DONOSTIA INTERNATIONAL PHYSICS CENTER DIPC   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE BASQUE COUNTRY UPV EHU   (Spain)

^c CSIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); ENTROPY; POLYMERS; THERMAL EFFECTS;

CONFIGURATIONAL ENTROPY; COOPERATIVELY REARRANGING REGIONS (CRR); GLASS FORMING POLYMERS;

GLASS TRANSITION;

EID: 34547527403     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.76.011514     Document Type: Article

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