Sesták / Hubík / #esták Glassy, Amorphous and Nano-Crystalline Materials

Thermal Physics, Analysis, Structure and Properties
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-90-481-2882-2
Verlag: Springer-Verlag
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 392 Seiten

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.

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sesták, Jaroslav

Hubík, Pavel

#esták, Jaroslav

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Glassy, Amorphous and Nano-Crystalline Materials;4
2;Preface;6
3;About the Editors;12
4;Acknowledgments;14
5;Contents;16
6;Chapter 1: Introduction: Some Essential Attributes of Glassiness Regarding the Nature of Non-crystalline Solids;20
7;Chapter 2: Heat Capacity and Entropy Functions in Strong and Fragile Glass-Formers, Relative to Those of Disordering Crystalline Materials;39
8;Chapter 3: Vibration Forms in the Vicinity of Glass Transition, Structural Changes and the Creation of Voids When Assuming the Role of Polarizability;59
9;Chapter 4: Some Aspects of Vitrification, Amorphisation and Disordering and the Generated Extent of Nano-Crystallinity;77
10;Chapter 5: Basic Role of Thermal Analysis in Polymer Physics;94
11;Chapter 6: Phases of Amorphous, Crystalline, and Intermediate Order in Microphase and Nanophase Systems;109
12;Chapter 7: Thermal Portrayal of Phase Separation in Polymers Producing Nanophase Separated Materials;131
13;Chapter 8: Solid Forms of Pharmaceutical Molecules;144
14;Chapter 9: Chalcogenide Glasses Selected as a Model System for Studying Thermal Properties;156
15;Chapter 10: Viscosity Measurements Applied to Chalcogenide Glass-Forming Systems;180
16;Chapter 11: Thermal Properties and Related Structural Study of Oxide Glasses;194
17;Chapter 12: Oxide Glass Structure, Non-bridging Oxygen and Feasible Magnetic Properties due to the Addition of Fe/Mn Oxides;213
18;Chapter 13: New Approach to Viscosity of Glasses;231
19;Chapter 14: Transport Constitutive Relations, Quantum Diffusion and Periodic Reactions;240
20;Chapter 15: In-Situ Investigation of the Fast Lattice Recovery during Electropulse Treatment of Heavily Cold Drawn Nanocrystall Ni-Ti Wires;258
21;Chapter 16: Emanation Thermal Analysis as a Method for Diffusion Structural Diagnostics of Zircon and Brannerite Minerals;274
22;Chapter 17: Scanning Transitiometry and Its Application in Petroleum Industry and in Polymer and Food Science;284
23;Chapter 18: Constrained States Occurring in Plants Cryo-Processing and the Role of Biological Glasses;304
24;Chapter 19: Thermophysical Properties of Natural Glasses at the Extremes of the Thermal History Profile;324
25;Chapter 20: Hotness Manifold, Phenomenological Temperature and Other Related Concepts of Thermal Physics;339
26;Chapter 21: Historical Roots and Development of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry;359
27;Index;383