Sistema Bibliotecario de la Universidad de Quintana Roo

1. Introduction: Some Essential Attributes of Glassiness Regarding the Nature of Non-Crystalline Solids (Hiroshi Suga) -- 2. Heat Capacity and Entropy Functions in Strong and Fragile Glass-Formers, Relative to those of Disordering Crystalline Materials (C. Austen Angell) -- 3. Vibration Forms in the Vicinity of Glass Transition, Structural Changes and the Creation of Voids when Assuming the Role of Polarizability (Jaroslav estk, Boivoj Hlavek, Pavel Hubȡk, Jiȡ J. Mare) -- 4. Some Aspects of Vitrification, Amorphisation and Disordering and the Generated Extent of Nano-Crystallinity (Jaroslav estk, Carlos A. Queiroz, Jiȡ J. Mare, Miroslav Holeek) -- 5. Basic Role of Thermal Analysis in Polymer Physics (Adam L. Danch) -- 6. Phases of Amorphous, Crystalline, and Intermediate Order in Microphase and Nanophase Systems (Bernhard Wunderlich) -- 7. Thermal Portrayal of Phase Separation in Polymers Producing Nanophase Separated Materials (Ivan KrakovskȻ, Yuko Ikeda) -- 8. Solid Forms of Pharmaceutical Molecules (Bohumil Kratochvȡl) -- 9. Chalcogenide Glasses Selected as a Model System for Studying Thermal Properties (Zdenk ernoek, Eva ernokov, Jana Holubov) -- 10. Viscosity Measurements Applied to Chalcogenide Glass-Forming Systems (Petr Kotl, Jana Shnlov, Jiȡ Mlek) -- 11. Thermal Properties and Related Structural Study of Oxide Glasses (Marek Lika, Mria Chromȡkov) -- 12. Oxide Glass Structure, Non-Bridging Oxygen and Feasible Magnetic Properties due to the Addition of Fe/Mn Oxides (Jaroslav estk, Marek Lika, Pavel Hubȡk) -- 13. New Approach to Viscosity of Glasses (Isak Avramov) -- 14. Transport Constitutive Relations, Quantum Diffusion and Periodic Reactions (Jiȡ J. Mare, Jaroslav estk, Pavel Hubȡk) -- 15. In-Situ Investigation of the Fast Lattice Recovery during Electropulse Treatment of Heavily Cold Drawn Nanocrystalline Ni-Ti Wires (Petr ittner, Jan Pilch, B. Malard, Remi Delville, Caroline Curfs) -- 16. Emanation Thermal Analysis as a Method for Diffusion Structural Diagnostics of Zircon and Brannerite Minerals (Vladimȡr Balek, Iraida M. Bountseva, Igor von Beckman) -- 17. Scanning Transitiometry and its Application in Petroleum Industry and in Polymer and Food Science (Jean-Pierre E. Grolier) -- 18. Constrained States Occurring in Plants Cryo-Processing and the Role of Biological Glasses (Jiȡ Zmenȡk, Jaroslav estk) -- 19. Thermophysical Properties of Natural Glasses at the Extremes of the Thermal History Profile (Paul Thomas, Jaroslav estk, Klaus Heide, Ekkehard Fȭglein, Peter imon) -- 20. Hotness Manifold, Phenomenological Temperature and Other Related Concepts of Thermal Physics (Jiȡ J. Mare) -- 21. Historical Roots and Development of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry (Jaroslav estk, Pavel Hubȡk, Jiȡ J. Mare).

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.