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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 115, Issue 18, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.185501
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- National Science Foundation [CHE-1265737]
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- Division Of Chemistry [1265737] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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Glassy materials display numerous important properties which relate to the presence and intensity of the secondary (beta) relaxations that dominate the dynamics below the glass transition temperature. However, experimental protocols such as annealing allow little control over the beta relaxation for most glasses. Here we report on the beta relaxation of toluene in highly stable glasses prepared by physical vapor deposition. At conditions that generate the highest kinetic stability, about 70% of the beta relaxation intensity is suppressed, indicating the proximity of this state to the long-sought ideal glass. While preparing such a state via deposition takes less than an hour, it would require similar to 3500 years of annealing an ordinary glass to obtain similarly suppressed dynamics.
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