Abstract: The concept of fragility, which was introduced to characterize the degree of super-Arrhenius temperature dependence of the relaxation time and transport coefficients, has since been taken as a key quantity that seems to correlate with other properties of glass-forming liquids and polymers. With the goal of assessing the usefulness and the robustness of the concept, we address here several questions: How to best quantify fragility? How significant are the observed differences in fragility? Is fragility connected to cooperativity and collective behavior?
Publication Year: 2014
Publication Date: 2014-01-13
Language: en
Type: preprint
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