Obtaining the glass transition temperature by measuring the crack healing process of glassformers

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 92, Issue 13, 2008, Pages

  Huang, Y N ^b   Zhang, J L ^a   Wu, W H ^a   Zhou, H W ^a   Guo, X Z ^a  

^a Ili Normal University   (China)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRACK INITIATION; GLASS TRANSITION; LIQUID METALS; MICROCRACKS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS;

GLASS DYNAMICS; GLASSFORMERS; MECHANICAL SPECTROSCOPY; MOLECULAR LIQUIDS;

SUPERCONDUCTING TRANSITION TEMPERATURE;

EID: 41649091395     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2905290     Document Type: Article

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