Experimental evidence of mosaic structure in strongly supercooled molecular liquids

The Johari-Goldstein relaxation is a precursor of the glass transition in liquids. Caporaletti et al. use time-dependent interferometry data to substantiate its suggested structural appearance as a globally percolating, fluctuating mosaic.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: F. Caporaletti, S. Capaccioli, S. Valenti, M. Mikolasek, A. I. Chumakov, G. Monaco
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2021-03-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22154-8