Glasses and the glass transition /

• Main Author: Schmelzer, J. (Jürn)
• Corporate Author: Wiley InterScience (Online service)
• Other Authors: Gutzow, I. (Iwan), Mazurin, Oleg Vsevolodovich
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Weinheim : Wiley-VCH Verlag, [2011]
• Subjects: Glass.; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Material Science.; Glaszustand; Glasumwandlung; Electronic books.

"Written by the best 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...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction / Jurn W P Schmelzer, Ivan S Gutzow
• Basic Properties and the Nature of Glasses: An Overview / Ivan S Gutzow, Jurn W P Schmelzer
• Generic Theory of Vitrification of Glass-Forming Melts / Jurn W P Schmelzer, Ivan S Gutzow
• Generic Approach to the Viscosity and the Relaxation Behavior of Glass-Forming Melts / Jurn W P Schmelzer
• Thermodynamics of Amorphous Solids, Glasses, and Disordered Crystals / Ivan S Gutzow, Boris P Petroff, Snejana V Todorova, Jurn W P Schmelzer
• Principles and Methods of Collection of Glass Property Data and Analysis of Data Reliability / Oleg V Mazurin
• Methods of Prediction of Glass Properties from Chemical Compositions / Alexander I Priven
• Glasses as Accumulators of Free Energy and Other Unusual Applications of Glasses / Ivan S Gutzow, Snejana V Todorova
• Glasses and the Third Law of Thermodynamics / Ivan S Gutzow, Jurn W P Schmelzer
• On the Etymology of the Word 'Glass' in European Languages and Some Final Remarks / Ivan S Gutzow.