Development of structural order during supercooling of a fragile oxide melt.

Autor: Hennet, L., Pozdnyakova, I., Bytchkov, A., Price, D. L., Greaves, G. N., Wilding, M., Fearn, S., Martin, C. M., Thiaudière, D., Bérar, J.-F., Boudet, N., Saboungi, M.-L.
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Zdroj: Journal of Chemical Physics; 2/21/2007, Vol. 126 Issue 7, p074906, 4p, 5 Graphs
Abstrakt: The authors have studied the structural evolution of the fragile glass-forming liquid CaAl2O4 during supercooling from the stable liquid phase to the cold glass below Tg. The evolution is characterized by a sharpening of the first diffraction peak and a shortening of the average nearest-neighbor bond length around 1.25Tg, indicating an increase in the degree of both intermediate-range and short-range orders occurring close to the dynamical crossover temperature. The cooling curve developed a kink at this temperature, indicating a simultaneous change in thermodynamic properties. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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