Equation of State and Entropy Theory Approach to Thermodynamic Scaling in Polymeric Glass-Forming Liquids

Numerous experimental and computational studies have established that most liquids seem to exhibit a remarkable, yet poorly understood, property termed “thermodynamic scaling”, in which the structural relaxation time τα, and many other dynamic properties, can be expressed in terms of a “universal” reduced variable, TVγ, where T is the temperature, V is the material volume, and γ is a scaling exponent describing how T and V are linked to each...