Observing the twinkling fractal nature of the glass transition

Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids

Volumn 357, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 311-319

  Stanzione III, J F ^a   Strawhecker, K E ^b   Wool, R P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Atomic force microscopy; Dynamic fractal networks; Glass transition; Percolation; Solid state structure

Indexed keywords

AFM; AFM IMAGE; ANHARMONIC; ATACTIC POLYSTYRENES; BOLTZMANN; CLUSTER LIFETIME; CLUSTER SIZES; DYNAMIC EQUILIBRIA; ENERGY LANDSCAPE; EXCITED ENERGY LEVEL; EXCITED VIBRATIONAL STATE; EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE; FRACTAL CHARACTERISTICS; FRACTAL CLUSTERS; FRACTAL STRUCTURES; FRACTAL THEORY; GLASS TRANSITION TEMPERATURE; GLASS-FORMING LIQUID; INTERMOLECULAR POTENTIALS; LIQUID CLUSTER; PERCOLATING CLUSTERS; PERCOLATION; PHASE IMAGE; RELAXATION FUNCTIONS; SOLID-STATE STRUCTURE; TIME-SCALES; TRANSITION REGIONS; UNSOLVED PROBLEMS; VIBRATIONAL DENSITY OF STATE;

ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; FRACTAL DIMENSION; GLASS; GLASS FORMING MACHINES; LIQUIDS; POLYSTYRENES; SOLVENTS;

GLASS TRANSITION;

EID: 78751572872     PISSN: 00223093     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jnoncrysol.2010.06.041     Document Type: Conference Paper

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