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SUBMITTER: Johnson WL
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4735709 | biostudies-other | 2016
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Johnson W L WL Na J H JH Demetriou M D MD
Nature communications 20160120
The waiting time to form a crystal in a unit volume of homogeneous undercooled liquid exhibits a pronounced minimum τX* at a 'nose temperature' T(*) located between the glass transition temperature Tg, and the crystal melting temperature, TL. Turnbull argued that τX* should increase rapidly with the dimensionless ratio trg=Tg/TL. Angell introduced a dimensionless 'fragility parameter', m, to characterize the fall of atomic mobility with temperature above Tg. Both trg and m are widely thought to ...[more]