Glassy, Amorphous and Nano-crystalline Material: Thermal Physics, Analysis, Structure and Properties includes twenty-one chapter contributions from an international array of distinguished academics based in Asia, Australia, Eastern and Western Europe, Russia, and the USA. The book provides a coherent and authoritative overview of cutting-edge themes involving the thermal analysis, applied solid-state physics and the micro-crystallinity of selected materials and their macro- and microscopic thermal properties.
Selected chapters featured in the book include: Essential attributes of glassiness regarding the nature of non-crystalline solids; Aspects of vitrification, amorphization, disordering and the extent of nano-crystallinity; The basic role of thermal analysis in polymer physics; Classical and quantum diffusion and their application to the self-organized oscillatory reactions; Specificity of low temperature measurements applied to nano-crystalline diamante; Thermophysical properties of natural glasses at the extremes of the thermal history profile; Phenomenological meaning of temperature as background for the history and development of thermal analysis and calorimetry.
Advanced undergraduates, postgraduates and researchers working in the field of thermal analysis and calorimetry will find this contributed volume invaluable.
Author(s): Hiroshi Suga (auth.), Jaroslav à esták, Jiří J. Mareš, Pavel Hubík (eds.)
Series: Hot Topics in Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry 8
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Year: 2011
Language: English
Pages: XVII, 380 p.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xvii
Introduction: Some Essential Attributes of Glassiness Regarding the Nature of Non-crystalline Solids....Pages 1-19
Heat Capacity and Entropy Functions in Strong and Fragile Glass-Formers, Relative to Those of Disordering Crystalline Materials....Pages 21-40
Vibration Forms in the Vicinity of Glass Transition, Structural Changes and the Creation of Voids When Assuming the Role of Polarizability....Pages 41-58
Some Aspects of Vitrification, Amorphisation and Disordering and the Generated Extent of Nano-Crystallinity....Pages 59-75
Basic Role of Thermal Analysis in Polymer Physics....Pages 77-91
Phases of Amorphous, Crystalline, and Intermediate Order in Microphase and Nanophase Systems....Pages 93-114
Thermal Portrayal of Phase Separation in Polymers Producing Nanophase Separated Materials....Pages 115-127
Solid Forms of Pharmaceutical Molecules....Pages 129-140
Chalcogenide Glasses Selected as a Model System for Studying Thermal Properties....Pages 141-164
Viscosity Measurements Applied to Chalcogenide Glass-Forming Systems....Pages 165-178
Thermal Properties and Related Structural Study of Oxide Glasses....Pages 179-197
Oxide Glass Structure, Non-bridging Oxygen and Feasible Magnetic Properties due to the Addition of Fe/Mn Oxides....Pages 199-216
New Approach to Viscosity of Glasses....Pages 217-225
Transport Constitutive Relations, Quantum Diffusion and Periodic Reactions....Pages 227-244
In-Situ Investigation of the Fast Lattice Recovery during Electropulse Treatment of Heavily Cold Drawn Nanocrystalline Ni-Ti Wires....Pages 245-260
Emanation Thermal Analysis as a Method for Diffusion Structural Diagnostics of Zircon and Brannerite Minerals....Pages 261-270
Scanning Transitiometry and Its Application in Petroleum Industry and in Polymer and Food Science....Pages 271-290
Constrained States Occurring in Plants Cryo-Processing and the Role of Biological Glasses....Pages 291-310
Thermophysical Properties of Natural Glasses at the Extremes of the Thermal History Profile....Pages 311-325
Hotness Manifold, Phenomenological Temperature and Other Related Concepts of Thermal Physics....Pages 327-346
Back Matter....Pages 371-380
Historical Roots and Development of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry....Pages 347-370
