Thermal glass transition beyond the Vogel-Fulcher-Tammann behavior for glass forming diglycidylether of bisphenol A.

For the low molecular weight fragile liquid diglycidyl ether of bisphenol A we report, based on Brillouin and dielectric spectroscopy, on a thermal glass transition where the relaxation time of the alpha process does not go to infinity. Instead, the structural alpha relaxation disappears spontaneously at the transition point. That discontinuity in relaxation time coincides with a kink in the longitudinal hypersonic velocity and determines unambiguously the transition from the liquid to the glassy state.