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National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 8(112), p. 2331-2336, 2015

DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1423435112

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Probing equilibrium glass flow up to exapoise viscosities

Journal article published in 2015 by Eva Arianna Aurelia Pogn, Eva Arianna Aurelia Pogna, Cristian Rodríguez-Tinoco ORCID, Giulio Cerullo, Carino Ferrante ORCID, Javier Rodríguez-Viejo, Tullio Scopigno
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Abstract

Glasses are out-of-equilibrium systems aging under the crystallization threat. During ordinary glass formation, the atomic diffusion slows down rendering its experimental investigation impractically long, to the extent that a timescale divergence is taken for granted by many. We circumvent here these limitations, taking advantage of a wide family of glasses rapidly obtained by physical vapor deposition directly into the solid state, endowed with different "ages" rivaling those reached by standard cooling and waiting for millennia. Isothermally probing the mechanical response of each of these glasses, we infer a correspondence with viscosity along the equilibrium line, up to exapoise values. We find a dependence of the elastic modulus on the glass age, which, traced back to temperature steepness index of the viscosity, tears down one of the cornerstones of several glass transition theories: the dynamical divergence. Critically, our results suggest that the conventional wisdom picture of a glass ceasing to flow at finite temperature could be wrong. ; Comment: 4 figures and 1 supplementary figure