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Energy landscape, antiplasticization, and polydispersity induced crossover of heterogeneity in supercooled
Sneha Elizabeth Abraham1, Sarika Maitra Bhattacharrya, Biman Bagchi
1Solid State and Structural Chemistry Unit, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560 012, India.
Abstract:
Polydispersity is found to have a significant effect on the potential energy landscape; the average inherent structure energy decreases with polydispersity. Increasing polydispersity at a fixed volume fraction decreases the glass transition temperature and the fragility of glass formation analogous to the antiplasticization seen in some polymeric melts. An interesting temperature dependent crossover of heterogeneity with polydispersity is observed at low temperature due to the faster buildup of dynamic heterogeneity at lower polydispersity.
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