Glassy, Amorphous and Nano-Crystalline Materials

Thermal Physics, Analysis, Structure and Properties
2011. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-90-481-2881-5
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 380 Seiten, Format (B × H): 167 mm x 243 mm, Gewicht: 1620 g

Reihe: Hot Topics in Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry

Provides a summary of non-equilibrium glassy and amorphous structures and their macro- and microscopic thermal properties.

The book contains a carefully selected works of fourteen internationally recognized scientists involving the advances of the physics and chemistry of the glassy and amorphous states.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Šesták, Jaroslav

Mareš, Jirí J.

Hubík, Pavel

Fachgebiete

• Technische Wissenschaften Maschinenbau | Werkstoffkunde Technische Mechanik | Werkstoffkunde Materialwissenschaft: Biomaterialien, Nanomaterialien, Kohlenstoff
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Thermodynamik Festkörperphysik, Kondensierte Materie
• Technische Wissenschaften Maschinenbau | Werkstoffkunde Technische Mechanik | Werkstoffkunde Materialwissenschaft: Keramik, Glas, Sonstige Werkstoffe

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: Some Essential Attributes of Glassiness Regarding the Nature of Non-Crystalline Solids (Hiroshi Suga).- 2. Heat Capacity and Entropy Functions in Strong and Fragile Glass-Formers, Relative to those of Disordering Crystalline Materials (C. Austen Angell).- 3. Vibration Forms in the Vicinity of Glass Transition, Structural Changes and the Creation of Voids when Assuming the Role of Polarizability (Jaroslav Šesták, Borivoj Hlavácek, Pavel Hubík, Jirí J. Mareš).- 4. Some Aspects of Vitrification, Amorphisation and Disordering and the Generated Extent of Nano-Crystallinity (Jaroslav Šesták, Carlos A. Queiroz, Jirí J. Mareš, Miroslav Holecek).- 5. Basic Role of Thermal Analysis in Polymer Physics (Adam L. Danch).- 6. Phases of Amorphous, Crystalline, and Intermediate Order in Microphase and Nanophase Systems (Bernhard Wunderlich).- 7. Thermal Portrayal of Phase Separation in Polymers Producing Nanophase Separated Materials (Ivan Krakovský, Yuko Ikeda).- 8. Solid Forms of Pharmaceutical Molecules (Bohumil Kratochvíl).- 9. Chalcogenide Glasses Selected as a Model System for Studying Thermal Properties (Zdenek Cernošek, Eva Cernošková, Jana Holubová).- 10. Viscosity Measurements Applied to Chalcogenide Glass-Forming Systems (Petr Koštál, Jana Shánelová, Jirí Málek).- 11. Thermal Properties and Related Structural Study of Oxide Glasses (Marek Liška, Mária Chromcíková).- 12. Oxide Glass Structure, Non-Bridging Oxygen and Feasible Magnetic Properties due to the Addition of Fe/Mn Oxides (Jaroslav Šesták, Marek Liška, Pavel Hubík).- 13. New Approach to Viscosity of Glasses (Isak Avramov).- 14. Transport Constitutive Relations, Quantum Diffusion and Periodic Reactions (Jirí J. Mareš, Jaroslav Šesták, Pavel Hubík).- 15. In-Situ Investigation of the Fast Lattice Recovery during Electropulse Treatment of Heavily Cold Drawn Nanocrystalline Ni-Ti Wires (Petr Šittner, Jan Pilch, B. Malard, Remi Delville, Caroline Curfs).-16. Emanation Thermal Analysis as a Method for Diffusion Structural Diagnostics of Zircon and Brannerite Minerals (Vladimír Balek, Iraida M. Bountseva, Igor von Beckman).- 17. Scanning Transitiometry and its Application in Petroleum Industry and in Polymer and Food Science (Jean-Pierre E. Grolier).- 18. Constrained States Occurring in Plants Cryo-Processing and the Role of Biological Glasses (Jirí Zámecník, Jaroslav Šesták).- 19. Thermophysical Properties of Natural Glasses at the Extremes of the Thermal History Profile (Paul Thomas, Jaroslav Šesták, Klaus Heide, Ekkehard Füglein, Peter Šimon).- 20. Hotness Manifold, Phenomenological Temperature and Other Related Concepts of Thermal Physics (Jirí J. Mareš).- 21. Historical Roots and Development of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry (Jaroslav Šesták, Pavel Hubík, Jirí J. Mareš).

Über Autor(innen)

Prof. Jaroslav Šesták, MEng., PhD., DSc.

Institute of Physics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic - specialised in thermodynamics (kinetics) and material science and engineering (particularly applied to variety of inorganic glasses), 287 papers in impact journals, over 2500 SCI citation responses, 15 books and book chapters, received honorary degree of Doctor Honoris Causa of the University of Pardubice (January 2010).

Dr. Jiri J. Mares, PhD

Institute of Physics, Academy of Sciences, specialised in thermal physics and non-equilibrium phenomena, 123 papers in impact journals, over 230 citation responses, 3 books and book chapters.

Dr. Pavel Hubik, PhD

Senior Scietist in Solid State Physics Institute of Physics of Academy of Sciences of CR.