The freezing tendency towards 4-coordinated amorphous networks causes an increase in the heat capacity of supercooled Stillinger

The freezing tendency towards 4-coordinated amorphous networks causes an increase in the heat capacity of supercooled Stillinger–Weber silicon

Published:2015 Issue:55 Volume:5 Page:44679-44686
ISSN:2046-2069
Container-title:RSC Advances
language:en
Short-container-title:RSC Adv.

Author:

Apte Pankaj A.¹²³⁴,Pingua Nandlal¹²³⁴,Gautam Arvind Kumar¹²³⁴,Kumar Uday¹²³⁴,Willow Soohaeng Yoo⁵⁶⁷⁸⁹,Zeng Xiao Cheng⁵¹⁰¹¹⁹,Kulkarni B. D.¹²¹³⁴

Affiliation:

1. Department of Chemical Engineering

2. Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur

3. Kanpur

4. India

5. Department of Chemistry

6. University of Illinois

7. Urbana-Champaign

8. Urbana

9. USA

10. University of Nebraska-Lincoln

11. Lincoln

12. CSIR-National Chemical Laboratory

13. Pune 411008

Abstract

A heat-capacity increase near the liquid-amorphous (glass) transition temperature (1060 K) is caused by dynamical instability leading to the freezing of the 4-coordinated network.

Publisher

Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)

Subject

General Chemical Engineering,General Chemistry

Link

http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2015/RA/C5RA04892C

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