Erasing no-man's land by thermodynamically stabilizing the liquid-liquid transition in tetrahedral particles

Nature Physics

Volumn 10, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 653-657

  Smallenburg, Frank ^a   Filion, Laura ^b   Sciortino, Francesco ^a,c  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASSOCIATION REACTIONS; SILICA; SOLS;

CRITICAL TEMPERATURES; EXPERIMENTAL CONFIRMATION; INTER-PARTICLE INTERACTION; LIQUID-LIQUID TRANSITION; METASTABLE LIQUID; SPONTANEOUS CRYSTALLIZATION; THERMODYNAMIC ANOMALIES; THERMODYNAMICALLY STABLE;

LIQUIDS;

EID: 84904521142     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/NPHYS3030     Document Type: Article

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