Glasses and the Glass Transition

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Written by renowned researchers in the field, this up-to-date treatise fills the gap for a high-level work discussing current materials and processes. It covers all the steps involved, from vitrification, relaxation and viscosity, right up to the prediction of glass properties, paving the way for improved methods and applications.
For solid state physicists and chemists, materials scientists, and those working in the ceramics industry.

With a preface by L. David Pye and a foreword by Edgar D. Zanotto
 

Contents

Basic Properties and the Nature
Generic Theory of Vitrification of Glass
Generic Approach to the Viscosity and
Thermodynamics of Amorphous Solids
the ΔGT Course
Orientational Modes in Crystals
Properties of Typical GlassForming Systems
Methods of Prediction of Glass Properties
Melts in the Twentieth Century
Glass Properties in Nonoxide Systems
Glasses as Accumulators of Free Energy
Crystallization Dissolution
Glasses and the Third Law
On the Etymology of the Word Glass
Index
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About the author (2011)

Prof. Ivan S. Gutzow, scientist with the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, has served at research positions at various institutions, including the Universities of Jena and Rostock, Germany, and MIT and Case Western University, USA. His work, published in more than 240 papers, has earned him various awards, e.g. the 2002 International Alexander von Humboldt Research Price.
His society affiliations include the German Union of Glass Technology (DGG), and the International Commission of Glass.

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