When the heterogeneous appears homogeneous: Discrepant measures of heterogeneity in single-molecule observables

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 2, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 438-442

  MacKowiak, Stephan A ^a   Kaufman, Laura J ^a  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DYNAMIC RANGE; ENSEMBLE TECHNIQUES; EXPERIMENTAL APPROACHES; HETEROGENEOUS DYNAMICS; REMAINING DIFFERENCES; ROTATIONAL RELAXATIONS; SINGLE-MOLECULE; SPATIALLY HETEROGENEOUS DYNAMICS; STRETCHED EXPONENTIAL RELAXATIONS; SUPERCOOLED LIQUIDS;

RELAXATION PROCESSES; SUPERCOOLING;

EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 79952330783     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jz1016872     Document Type: Article

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