Supercooled liquids with enhanced orientational order

Nature Communications

Volumn 3, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Capponi, Simona ^a,c   Napolitano, Simone ^b   Wübbenhorst, Michael ^a  

^a KU LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYOL;

ALCOHOL; CORRELATION; DEPOSITION; FILM; KINETICS; LIQUID; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; ORIENTATION; SIZE; SUPERCOOLING;

ARTICLE; BIOTRANSFORMATION; CHEMICAL BOND; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIELECTRIC CONSTANT; FILM; KINETICS; LIQUID; LIQUID LIQUID EXTRACTION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR SIZE; MOLECULAR STABILITY; PHASE TRANSITION; POLARIZATION; PREDICTION; SUPERCOOLED LIQUID; ULTRATHIN FILM; VAPORIZATION; WET DEPOSITION;

EID: 84871740050     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms2228     Document Type: Article

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