Critical-like behaviour of glass-forming liquids

Nature Materials

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 324-331

  Tanaka, Hajime ^a   Kawasaki, Takeshi ^a   Shintani, Hiroshi ^a   Watanabe, Keiji ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLASS; GLASS FORMING MACHINES; LIQUIDS;

CORRELATION LENGTHS; CRITICAL PHENOMENON; GLASS TRANSITION POINTS; GLASS-FORMING LIQUID; HETEROGENEOUS DYNAMICS; POWER LAW DIVERGENCE; STATIC STRUCTURE FACTORS; STRUCTURAL ORDER PARAMETER;

GLASS TRANSITION;

EID: 77950021582     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat2634     Document Type: Article

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