Breaking through the glass ceiling: Recent experimental approaches to probe the properties of supercooled liquids near the glass transition

Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 725-730

  Smith, R Scott ^a   Kay, Bruce D ^a  

^a PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE APPROACH; AMORPHOUS SOLIDS; CURRENT THEORETICAL MODELS; EXPERIMENTAL APPROACHES; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; EXPERIMENTAL MEASUREMENTS; GLASS CEILING; SUPERCOOLED LIQUIDS; SUPERCOOLED MOLECULAR LIQUIDS; TEMPERATURE REGIMES;

CRYOGENIC LIQUIDS; GLASS; SUPERCOOLING;

GLASS TRANSITION;

EID: 84863337893     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19487185     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jz201710z     Document Type: Review

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