Nature Communications (Mar 2021)

Experimental evidence of mosaic structure in strongly supercooled molecular liquids

  • F. Caporaletti,
  • S. Capaccioli,
  • S. Valenti,
  • M. Mikolasek,
  • A. I. Chumakov,
  • G. Monaco

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22154-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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The Johari-Goldstein relaxation is a precursor of the glass transition in liquids. Caporaletti et al. use time-dependent interferometry data to substantiate its suggested structural appearance as a globally percolating, fluctuating mosaic.