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Thermodynamic determination of fragility in liquids and a fragile-to-strong liquid transition in water

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  • Kaori Ito

    (Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology)

  • Cornelius T. Moynihan

    (Rensselaer Polytechnic Instutute)

  • C. Austen Angell

    (Arizona State University)

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If crystallization can be avoided when a liquid is cooled, it will typically form a glass. Near the glass transition temperature the viscosity increases continuously but rapidly with cooling. As the glass forms, the molecular relaxation time increases with an Arrhenius-like (simple activated) form in some liquids, but shows highly non-Arrhenius behaviour in others. The former are said to be ‘strong’ liquids, and the latter ‘fragile’1,2. Here we show that the fragility of a liquid can be determined from purely thermodynamic data (as opposed to measurements of kinetics) near and below the melting point. We find that for most liquids the fragilities estimated this way are consistent with those obtained by previous methods and by a new method (ref. 3 and K.I., C.A.A. and C.T.M., unpublished data) at temperatures near the glass transition. But water is an exception. The thermodynamic method indicates that near its melting point it is the most fragile of all liquids studied, whereas the kinetic approach indicates that near the glass transition it is the least fragile. We propose that this discrepancy can be explained by a fragile-to-strong transition in supercooled water near 228 K, corresponding to a change in the liquid's structure at this point.

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  • Kaori Ito & Cornelius T. Moynihan & C. Austen Angell, 1999. "Thermodynamic determination of fragility in liquids and a fragile-to-strong liquid transition in water," Nature, Nature, vol. 398(6727), pages 492-495, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:398:y:1999:i:6727:d:10.1038_19042
    DOI: 10.1038/19042
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    1. Wilding, Martin C. & McMillan, Paul F. & Navrotsky, Alexandra, 2002. "Thermodynamic and structural aspects of the polyamorphic transition in yttrium and other rare-earth aluminate liquids," Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Elsevier, vol. 314(1), pages 379-390.
    2. Zaneta Wojnarowska & Shinian Cheng & Beibei Yao & Malgorzata Swadzba-Kwasny & Shannon McLaughlin & Anne McGrogan & Yoan Delavoux & Marian Paluch, 2022. "Pressure-induced liquid-liquid transition in a family of ionic materials," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 13(1), pages 1-10, December.
    3. Akio Ishii & Ju Li & Shigenobu Ogata, 2013. "“Conjugate Channeling” Effect in Dislocation Core Diffusion: Carbon Transport in Dislocated BCC Iron," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 8(4), pages 1-7, April.

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