Glasses crystallize rapidly at free surfaces by growing crystals upward

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 15, 2011, Pages 5990-5995

  Suna, Ye ^a   Zhua, Lei ^a   Kearnsa, Kenneth L ^a   Edigera, Mark D ^a   Yua, Lian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLASS; INDOMETACIN;

CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CRYSTAL; CRYSTALLIZATION; DENSITY; ENERGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THICKNESS;

EID: 79955038009     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1017995108     Document Type: Article

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