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SUBMITTER: Stevenson JD
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3174050 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Stevenson Jacob D JD Wolynes Peter G PG
The journal of physical chemistry. A 20101220 16
In recent years it has become widely accepted that a dynamical length scale ξ(α) plays an important role in supercooled liquids near the glass transition. We examine the implications of the interplay between the growing ξ(α) and the size of the crystal nucleus, ξ(M), which shrinks on cooling. We argue that at low temperatures where ξ(α) > ξ(M) a new crystallization mechanism emerges, enabling rapid development of a large scale web of sparsely connected crystallinity. Though we predict this web p ...[more]