Molecular Dynamics of Glass-Forming Systems Effects of Pressure /

• Main Authors: Floudas, George (Author), Paluch, Marian (Author), Grzybowski, Andrzej (Author), Ngai, Kai (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2011.
• Series: Advances in Dielectrics, 1
• Subjects: Chemistry.; Physical chemistry.; Polymers.; Condensed matter.; Polymer Sciences.; Condensed Matter Physics.; Ceramics, Glass, Composites, Natural Methods.; Physical Chemistry.

Pressure is one of the essential thermodynamic variables that, due to some former experimental difficulties, was long known as the “forgotten variable.” But this has changed over the last decade. This book includes the most essential first experiments from the 1960s and reviews the progress made in...

Table of Contents:

• The Glass “transition”
• Origin of glass formation
• Models of temperature-pressure dependence of structural relaxation time
• New physics gained by the application of pressure in the study of dynamics of glass-formers
• Pressure effects on polymer blends
• Polypeptide dynamics. .