On the possible existence of crystallites in glass-forming liquids

Details On the possible existence of crystallites in glass-forming liquids On the possible existence of crystallites in glass-forming liquids

2006-12-28

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0612671v2

Physics

Condensed Matter

Soft Condensed Matter

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We speculate that glass-forming liquids may contain fairly large and well-defined crystallites. This is based on arguing that the slowly relaxing "frozen-in" stresses characterizing ultraviscous liquids increase the barrier for nucleation, thus allowing for larger unstable crystallites than otherwise possible. The frozen-in stresses also deform the crystallites, making their observation difficult; specifically it is argued that a situation where 1/N of the molecules form N X N X N crystallites would be hard to detect by standard X-ray or neutron scattering experiments.

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