Relaxation and Diffusion in Complex Systems

• Main Author: Ngai, K.L (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2011.
• Series: Partially Ordered Systems,
• Subjects: Physics.; Phase transitions (Statistical physics).; Complexity, Computational.; Phase Transitions and Multiphase Systems.; Ceramics, Glass, Composites, Natural Methods.; Complexity.

Relaxation and Diffusion in Complex Systems comprehensively presents a variety of experimental evidences of universal relaxation and diffusion properties in complex materials and systems. The materials discussed include liquids, glasses, colloids, polymers, rubbers, plastic crystals and aqueous mixt...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Universal Relaxation and Diffusion Properties in Complex Systems
• Experimental Evidences
• Computer Simulations
• Theoretical Modeling and Interpretations
• Many-Body Relaxation Dynamic and Relation to Chaos
• Glass Transition and the Glassy State
• Role of Thermodynamics, Volume, Entropy and Temperature
• Polymer Viscoelasticity
• Ionic Conductivity Relaxation in Ionically Conducting Materials
• Relaxation and Diffusion at Nanometer Scales
• Relaxation in Biomolecules.