Glasses And The Glass Transition

treatise fills a gap in the literature on glasses. It gives an overview of basic experimental data, of its collection, prediction and theoretical interpretation, thereby paving the way to a deeper understanding of these topics. The present monograph covers the whole spectrum of problems involved in the interpretation of glasses and their properties like e.g. glass transition, relaxation, viscosity, existing and possible unexpected future applications of glasses. The book is recommended to students, to both young and experienced researchers interested in materials science, in particular in glasses and glass-ceramics, classical and non-equilibrium thermodynamics. It will become a source of new ideas and inspiration for a wide circle of readers working in other areas of science. From the contents: Basic Properties and the Nature of Glasses: An Overview G Generic Theory of Vitrification of GlassForming Melts G Generic Approach to the Viscosity of Glass-Forming Melts G Thermodynamics of Amorphous Solids, Glasses, and Disordered Crystals G Principles and Methods of Collection and Analysis of Glass Property Data G Methods of Prediction of Glass Properties from Chemical Compositions G Glasses as Accumulators of Free Energy and other Unusual Applications of Glasses G Glasses and the Third Law of Thermodynamics G Etymology of the Word “Glass” Schmelzer · Gutzow Written by renowned researchers in this field, this up-to date advanced G Ivan S. Gutzow has been working at the Institute of Physical Chemistry of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (BAS), Sofia, since his graduation. In 1998, he founded there and headed till 2004 the Department of Amorphous Materials. He has been a Full Member of BAS since 2003. Simultaneously, he worked as a lecturer at universities in Bulgaria, Germany, the USA, and Brazil. Professor Gutzow’s scientific interests focus on structure, thermodynamics and crystallization of glass-forming systems. He described nucleation in glasses as a non-stationary process, developed methods of nucleation catalysis and synthesis of glass-ceramics, and formulated glass transition models, based on thermodynamics of irreversible processes. In 2002, Professor Gutzow was awarded the Alexander von Humboldt Research Prize (Germany). www.wiley-vch.de Glasses and the Glass Transition Jürn W. P. Schmelzer studied theoretical physics at the Universities of Odessa (Ukraine) and Rostock (Germany). He taught this discipline for many years at the Universities of Rostock and Addis Ababa (Ethiopia). Since 1995, he has been working simultaneously at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna near Moscow, organizing there since 1997 international research workshops on the theory of phase transitions and possible applications, in particular to materials science. In 2009, Dr. Schmelzer was awarded the Marin Drinov Medal of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences for his longstanding cooperation with Bulgarian scientists, the present book being one of the results of this fruitful work. Jürn W.P. Schmelzer and Ivan S. Gutzow Glasses and the Glass Transition Jürn W. P. Schmelzer and Ivan S. Gutzow Glasses and the Glass Transition Related Titles Slezov, V. V. Drummond, C. H. (ed.) Kinetics of First-order Phase Transitions 65th C