Highly stable vapor-deposited glasses of four tris-naphthylbenzene isomers

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 2, Issue 21, 2011, Pages 2683-2687

  Dawson, Kevin ^a   Zhu, Lei ^a   Kopff, Laura A ^a   McMahon, Robert J ^a   Yu, Lian ^a   Ediger, M D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLASSFORMERS; KINETIC STABILITY; NEW DIMENSIONS; ORGANIC GLASS; SUPERCOOLED LIQUIDS;

DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; ENTHALPY; GLASS; PHYSICAL VAPOR DEPOSITION; SUPERCOOLING; VAPORS;

ISOMERS;

EID: 80455131225     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jz201174m     Document Type: Article

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