Cooperative strings and glassy interfaces

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 112, Issue 27, 2015, Pages 8227-8231

  Salez, Thomas ^a,b   Salez, Justin ^c   Dalnoki Veress, Kari ^b,d   Raphaël, Elie ^b   Forrest, James A ^a,e  

^a PERIMETER INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Canada)

^b Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^d MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cooperative rearrangement; Glass transition; Thin films

Indexed keywords

GLASS;

ARTICLE; BULK RELAXATION; CHEMICAL PHENOMENA; CHEMICAL REACTION; DENSITY; ELLIPSOMETRY; FILM; GLASS FORMING MATERIAL; GLASS TRANSITION TEMPERATURE; MATERIALS; MATHEMATICAL PHENOMENA; MOLECULAR CROWDING; MOTION; PHYSICAL PHENOMENA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STING LIKE COOPERATIVE REARRANGEMENT; THERMAL DILATATION; THICKNESS; VOGEL FULCHER TAMMANN RELATION;

EID: 84936797731     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1503133112     Document Type: Article

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