Models of Agglomeration and Glass Transition

出版者:World Scientific Pub Co Inc

作者:Kerner, Richard

页数:364

出版时间:2006-12

价格:$ 157.07

装帧:HRD

isbn号码:9781860947568

This book is for any physicist interested in new vistas in the domain of non-crystalline condensed matter, aperiodic and quasi-crystalline networks and especially glass physics and chemistry. Students with an elementary background in thermodynamics and statistical physics will find the book accessible. The physics of glasses is extensively covered, focusing on their thermal and mechanical properties, as well as various models leading to the formation of the glassy states of matter from overcooled liquids. The models of agglomeration and growth are also applied to describe the formation of quasicrystals, fullerenes and, in biology, to describe virus assembly pathways.