Materials science: Unjamming a polymer glass

Science

Volumn 323, Issue 5911, 2009, Pages 214-215

  Weitz, David A ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLASS; POLY(METHYL METHACRYLATE); POLYMER;

GLASS; MELTING; POLYMER;

CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTICITY; ENERGY; FLUID FLOW; FLUIDIZATION; GLASS TRANSITION TEMPERATURE; GRAVITY; MELTING POINT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROTATION; SCIENCE; SHEAR STRESS; SHORT SURVEY; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

EID: 58149394376     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1168304     Document Type: Short Survey

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11. This work was supported by the NSF (grant DMR-0602684) and the Harvard Materials Science Research and Engineering Center (grant DMR-0820484).