Glasses and the glass transition

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 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 INDICE: With a preface by David Pye and a foreword by Edgar Zanotto - Introduction - Basic Properties and the Nature of Glasses: An Overview - Generic Theory of Vitrification of GlassForming Melts - Generic Approach to the Viscosity of GlassForming Melts - Thermodynamics of Amorphous Solids, Glasses, and Disordered Crystals - Principles and Methods of Collection and Analysis of GlassProperty Data - Methods of Prediction of Glass Properties from Chemical Compositions - Glasses as Accumulators of Free Energy and other Unusual Applications of Glasses - Glasses and the Third Law of Thermodynamics - Etymology of the Word 'Glass'

• ISBN: 978-3-527-40968-6
• Editorial: Wiley-VCH
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 448
• Fecha Publicación: 06/04/2011
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés