Glasses and the Glass Transition

by Ivan S. Gutzow, Oleg V. Mazurin, Jürn W. P. Schmelzer, Snejana V. Todorova, Boris B. Petroff

Overview

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

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783527636549
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	04/27/2011
Sold by:	JOHN WILEY & SONS
Format:	eBook
Pages:	428
File size:	7 MB

About the Author

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.

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).

Table of Contents

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 Glass-Forming Melts
- Generic Approach to the Viscosity of Glass-Forming Melts
- Thermodynamics of Amorphous Solids, Glasses, and Disordered Crystals
- Principles and Methods of Collection and Analysis of Glass Property 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'