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CPP: Fachverband Chemische Physik und Polymerphysik

CPP 78: Glasses and Glass Transition (joint session CPP, DF, DY)

CPP 78.1: Talk

Friday, March 20, 2015, 09:30–09:45, C 243

Stable glasses from strong liquids — •Yeong Zen Chua¹, Mathias Ahrenberg¹, Michael Tylinski², Mark D. Ediger², and Christoph Schick¹ — ¹Institute of Physics, University of Rostock, Wismarsche Str. 43-45, 18051 Rostock, Germany — ²Department of Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706 USA

To date, only several materials have been observed to form ultra-stable glasses by vapor deposition. Some authors have suggested that fragility might be a controlling factor in the ability to form stable glasses by vapor deposition, with highly stable glasses only being possible for highly fragile liquids. Glasses of ethylcyclohexane, fragility index 56.5, and 1-pentene, a very small molecule, produced by physical vapor deposition have been characterized by in situ AC chip nanocalorimetry. Since the fragility index of 1-pentene was not available, it was determined as 52 from the calorimetric glass transition temperatures measured in the frequency range from 0.2 Hz to 4 kHz. Ethylcyclohexane and 1-pentene are both strong glass formers, for which possibility of stable glass formation has been questioned. On the contrary, we observed formation of highly stable glasses of ethylcyclohexane and 1-pentene. The results on ethylcyclohexane and 1-pentene will be presented and compared with literature data of other known glass formers.