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A remark on the negative activation volume for defects in solids

Materials Science 2017-04-27 v1

Abstract

The evolution of the aging process of glassy materials quenched from temperatures above their glass transition temperature TgT_g, when plotting the relaxed enthalpy versus the decrease in volume, leads to a slope comparable to the isothermal compressibility close to TgT_g. This empirical result was explained in an earlier publication (V. Katsika-Tsigourakou, G. E. Zardas J. Non-Cryst. Solids 356 (2010) 179-180) by means of a thermodynamical model. Here, we show that the same model enables the explanation of the rare cases of negative defect activation in solids.

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@article{arxiv.1704.08044,
  title  = {A remark on the negative activation volume for defects in solids},
  author = {Vassiliki Katsika-Tsigourakou},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1704.08044},
  year   = {2017}
}

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