Glass transition
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Ideal glass transition temperature
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Observation time
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Intrinsic average structural relaxation time
See also
References
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- Jeppe C. Dyre "The glass transition and elastic models of glass-forming liquids", Reviews of Modern Physics 78 953 (2006)
- Prabhat K. Gupta and John C. Mauro "The laboratory glass transition", Journal of Chemical Physics 126 224504 (2007)
- Vassiliy Lubchenko and Peter G. Wolynes "Theory of Structural Glasses and Supercooled Liquids", Annual Review of Physical Chemistry 58 pp. 235-266 (2007)
- C. Patrick Royall, Stephen R. Williams, Takehiro Ohtsuka and Hajime Tanaka "Direct observation of a local structural mechanism for dynamic arrest", Nature Materials (online) (2008)