Linking rigidity transitions with enthalpic changes at the glass transition and fragility: insight from a simple oscillator model
Linking rigidity transitions with enthalpic changes at the glass transition and fragility: insight from a simple oscillator model
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将刚性转变与玻璃化转变和脆性的焓变化联系起来:来自简单振荡器模型的见解
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10.1088/0953-8984/22/28/285101
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2010
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M. Micoulaut
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M. Micoulaut
A low temperature Monte Carlo dynamics of a Keating-like oscillator model is used to study the relationship between the nature of network glasses from the viewpoint of rigidity, the thermal reversibility during the glass transition and the strong–fragile behaviour of glass-forming liquids. The model shows that a Phillips optimal glass formation with minimal enthalpic changes is obtained under a cooling/annealing cycle when the system is optimally constrained by the harmonic interactions, i.e. when it is isostatically rigid. For these peculiar systems with a nearly reversible glass transition, the computed activation energy for relaxation time shows also a minimum, which demonstrates that isostatically rigid glasses are strong (Arrhenius-like) glass-forming liquids. Experiments on chalcogenide and oxide glass-forming liquids are discussed under this new perspective and confirm the theoretical prediction for chalcogenide network glasses whereas limitations of the approach appear for weakly interacting (non-covalent, ionic) systems.