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JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY B
Volume 104, Issue 11, Pages 2460-2466Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/jp991153f
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Dynamic heterogeneity is an. active field of glass-transition research. The length scale of this heterogeneity is called the characteristic length. It can be calculated from complex heat capacity curves in the equilibrium liquid or from dynamic calorimetry curves corrected with regard to nonequilibrium. No molecular parameters or microscopic models are necessary for obtaining the length. We report the characteristic length near glass temperature for about 30 glass formers including small-molecule liquids, polymers, silicate glasses, a metallic glass, a Liquid crystal, and a plastic crystal. The lengths are between 1.0 and 3.5 nm with certain cumulations between 1.0 and 2.0 nm and between 2.5 and 3.5 nm. To try a correlation to other properties, we find that at least two should be included, e.g., Angell's fragility and the distance of T-g from the crossover temperature, T-c.
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