On the role of inherent structures in glass-forming materials: I. The vitrification process

Journal of Physical Chemistry B

Volumn 112, Issue 34, 2008, Pages 10619-10627

  Tsalikis, Dimitrios G ^a   Lempesis, Nikolaos ^a   Boulougouris, Georgios C ^a,b   Theodorou, Doros N ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b Scienomics GmbH   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COOLING; DYNAMICS; FREEZING; GLASS; MODEL STRUCTURES; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; POISSON EQUATION; POTENTIAL ENERGY; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; RATE CONSTANTS; SUPERCOOLING; VITRIFICATION;

ATOMISTIC MOLECULAR-DYNAMICS; COARSE-GRAINED; COOLING PROCESSES; COOLING RATE; COOLING RATES; FIRST-ORDER KINETIC; GLASS TRANSITION TEMPERATURE TG; GLASS-FORMING MATERIALS; HIGHLY NONLINEAR; INHERENT STRUCTURES; LENNARD-JONES; MEAN-SQUARE DISPLACEMENT; POISSON PROCESS APPROXIMATION; POISSON PROCESSES; POTENTIAL ENERGY LANDSCAPES; SIMPLIFIED MODELS; SUPER-COOLED LIQUIDS; TIME SCALING; TWO-COMPONENT; VITRIFICATION PROCESS;

GLASS TRANSITION;

EID: 51849162958     PISSN: 15206106     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jp801296k     Document Type: Article

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