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Free Volume

Free Volume is the unoccupied space between polymer chains in an amorphous solid or liquid state, arising from inefficient molecular packing and enabling localized segmental mobility essential for physical properties and transport phenomena.

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664

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Publications

3.4K

Molecular Transport in Liquids and Glasses

Morrel H. Cohen, David Turnbull · The Journal of Chemical Physics · 1959 · 3.9K citations

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Free Volume and Entropy in Condensed Systems III. Entropy in Binary Liquid Mixtures; Partial Molal Entropy in Dilute Solutions; Structure and Thermodynamics in Aqueous Electrolytes

Henry S. Frank, Marjorie W. Evans · The Journal of Chemical Physics · 1945 · 2.9K citations

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Nature of the Glass Transition and the Glassy State

Julian H. Gibbs, Edmund A. DiMarzio · The Journal of Chemical Physics · 1958 · 2K citations

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Viscous Liquids and the Glass Transition: A Potential Energy Barrier Picture

Martin Goldstein · The Journal of Chemical Physics · 1969 · 1.5K citations

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Free-Volume Model of the Amorphous Phase: Glass Transition

David Turnbull, Morrel H. Cohen · The Journal of Chemical Physics · 1961 · 1.3K citations

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Authors

9.5K

  1. AJ
    Anita J. Hill

    CSIRO Manufacturing, Australia

    41 publications · 5K citations

    31

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  2. GD
    G. Dlubek

    Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany

    49 publications · 2.3K citations

    31

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  3. BD
    Benny D. Freeman

    The University of Texas at Austin, United States

    28 publications · 4.8K citations

    26

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  4. FF
    Franz Faupel

    Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Germany

    33 publications · 1.8K citations

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  5. YP
    Yu. P. Yampolskii

    A.V. Topchiev Institute of Petrochemical Synthesis, Russia

    25 publications · 1.7K citations

    21

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Institutions

2K

  1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    Cambridge, United States

    34 h-index

    128 publications

    10.4K citations

  2. The University of Texas at Austin

    Austin, United States

    34 h-index

    141 publications

    23.4K citations

  3. Pennsylvania State University

    State College, United States

    32 h-index

    118 publications

    6.3K citations

  4. Chinese Academy of Sciences

    Beijing, China

    31 h-index

    208 publications

    9.2K citations

  5. A.V. Topchiev Institute of Petrochemical Synthesis

    Moscow, Russia

    31 h-index

    169 publications

    11.2K citations

  6. Russian Academy of Sciences

    Moscow, Russia

    30 h-index

    151 publications

    8.6K citations

  7. Georgia Institute of Technology

    Atlanta, United States

    30 h-index

    115 publications

    10.4K citations

  8. National University of Singapore

    Singapore, Singapore

    29 h-index

    122 publications

    8.3K citations

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Venues

  1. Macromolecules

    290 publications · 21.5K citations

    79

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  2. The Journal of Chemical Physics

    229 publications · 27.3K citations

    68

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  3. Journal of Polymer Science Part B Polymer Physics

    167 publications · 8.3K citations

    48

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  4. Journal of Applied Polymer Science

    198 publications · 7.5K citations

    45

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  5. Polymer

    89 publications · 3.7K citations

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