Undercooled phase behind the glass phase with superheated medium-range order above glass transition temperature
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Author(s)
Tournier, Robert F
Ojovan, Michael I
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
Rapidly quenched glass formers are amorphous and transformed into glass phases by relaxing enthalpy during the first heating. Two liquids give rise, at first, to an intermediate Phase 3 below T3 < Tg respecting the entropy constraints and then, the enthalpy increases towards that of the glass phase up to Tg. The negative activation energy shows that Phase 3 is hidden behind the glassy phase acting as an intermediate invasive phase during the second cooling. Phase 3 carries a medium-range order above Tg which can be superheated above the melting temperature up to Tn+. The two-liquid state model predicts the thermodynamic properties as well as the relaxation times from liquids 1 to 2. The configuron model is successfully applied to 54 glasses explaining the transitions by percolation and an ‘ordered’ fraction equal to the critical threshold Φc = 0.15 ± 0.01 from Tg to Tn+.
Date Issued
2021-02
Date Acceptance
2020-09-05
Citation
Physica B: Condensed Matter, 2021, 602, pp.1-17
ISSN
0921-4526
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Start Page
1
End Page
17
Journal / Book Title
Physica B: Condensed Matter
Volume
602
Copyright Statement
© 2020 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. This manuscript is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Licence http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Identifier
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0921452620305408?via%3Dihub
Subjects
General Physics
0204 Condensed Matter Physics
0206 Quantum Physics
0303 Macromolecular and Materials Chemistry
Publication Status
Published
Article Number
412542
Date Publish Online
2020-11-24