Soft pinning: Experimental validation of static correlations in supercooled molecular glass-forming liquids

ABSTRACT: Abstract Enormous enhancement in the viscosity of a liquid near its glass transition is a hallmark of glass transition. Within a class of theoretical frameworks, it is connected to growing many-body static correlations near the transition, often called “amorphous ordering.” At the same time, some theories do not invoke the existence of such a static length scale in the problem. Thus, proving the existence and possible estimation of the static length scales of amorphous order in different glass-forming liquids is very important to validate or falsify the predictions of these theories and unravel the true physics of glass formation. Experiments on molecular glass-forming liquids become pivotal in this scenario as the viscosity grows several folds (

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PROVIDER: S-EPMC10482383 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature