Pushing the glass transition towards random close packing using self-propelled hard spheres

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Ni, Ran ^a,b   Stuart, Martien A Cohen ^a   Dijkstra, Marjolein ^c  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DENSITY; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; DYNAMICS; FORCE; GLASS TRANSITION; PHYSICAL PHENOMENA; PREDICTION; RANDOM CLOSE PACKING; SIMULATION; STEADY STATE; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; VELOCITY; WHITE NOISE;

EID: 84895940818     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms3704     Document Type: Article

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