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NATURE PHYSICS
Volume 7, Issue 10, Pages 816-821Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/nphys2031
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- Danish National Research Foundation (DNRF)
- Office of Naval Research
- Danish Council for Independent Research in Natural Sciences
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Understanding the origin of the dramatic temperature and density dependence of the relaxation time of glass-forming liquids is a fundamental challenge in glass science. The recently established 'density-scaling' relation quantifies the relative importance of temperature and density for the relaxation time in terms of a material-dependent exponent. We show that this exponent for approximate single-parameter liquids can be calculated from thermoviscoelastic linear-response data at a single state point, for instance an ambient-pressure state point. This prediction is confirmed for the van der Waals liquid tetramethyl-tetraphenyl-trisiloxane. Consistent with this, a compilation of literature data for the Prigogine-Defay ratio shows that van der Waals liquids and polymers are approximate single-parameter systems, whereas associated and network-forming liquids are not.
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