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Proteins and Glasses

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 February 2011

Hans Frauenfelder
Hans Frauenfelder*
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Center for Nonlinear Studies, MS B258, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, 87545, frauenfelder@LANL.GOV
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Abstract

The structure, the energy landscape, and the dynamics of proteins and glasses are similar. Both types of systems display characteristic nonexponential time dependencies of relaxation phenomena. Experiments suggest that both, proteins and glasses, are heterogeneous and that this fact causes the observed time dependence. This result is discussed in terms of the rough energy landscape characteristic of complex systems.

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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 455: Symposium T – Glasses and Glass Formers–Current Issues , 1996, 343
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1997

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