Abstract
Raman scattering and NMR results show that the backbone of binary glasses is composed of -chain fragments, pyramidal units, quasitetrahedral units, and ethylenelike units at low P content Concentrations of the various building blocks independently established from each spectroscopic probe are found to be correlated. Theoretical predictions for the glass transition variation from agglomeration theory are compared to the observed trends established from temperature-modulated differential scanning calorimetry. The comparison shows that a stochastic network description is an appropriate one of glasses at low At medium substantial medium-range structure evolves in the form of polymeric ethylenelike units that comprise elements of the barely rigid backbone. At higher a rapid phase separation of monomeric units from the backbone takes place, leading to a molecular glass with a rather low at
- Received 22 February 2000
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.64.134204
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