O. Yamamuro et al., ENTHALPY RELAXATION OF GLASSY GLYCEROL PREPARED BY RAPID LIQUID QUENCHING, Journal of non-crystalline solids, 235, 1998, pp. 517-521
We have studied the enthalpy relaxation of glassy glycerol prepared by
quenching of the liquid in a top-loading type adiabatic calorimeter d
eveloped by our group. The glassy sample was prepared by plunging the
sample cell into liquid nitrogen. The cooling rate, 5 K s(-1), was abo
ut 100 times faster than the rate available in ordinary adiabatic calo
rimeters. The heat capacity of the rapidly quenched glass (RQG) was on
ly slightly different from that of the normally quenched glass (NQG).
RQG released much larger enthalpy than NQG and the relaxations started
at a much lower temperature than the glass transition temperatures of
NQG. We analyzed these data in terms of the Adam-Gibbs theory. We dem
onstrate that the relaxation is accelerated by the larger configuratio
nal entropy (prominent structural disorder). (C) 1998 Elsevier Science
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