“…Upon cooling, no crystallization events are observed down to the glass transition, which occurs around −7 °C. Upon further cooling, a small but sharp exothermic peak is visible at T crack = −38.8 °C, corresponding to the temperature at which the sample cracks into small fragments. ,− Above T g , undercooled molecular liquids can easily relax the mechanical stress arising from the difference between their own volumetric thermal expansion coefficient (α V ), on the order of 10 –3 K –1 , and that of the Al substrate, 6.9 × 10 –5 K –1 . , Below T g , the situation is radically different. On the one hand, molecular glasses exhibit lower values of α V , which could be reduced to 30–80% of liquid α V , whereas that of the Al substrate remains approximately unchanged.…”