Description
Book SynopsisThis 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.
Trade Review"The book is written in a free, easily readable style, where calculations alternate with historical remarks relating to the history of glasses, the discovery of helium, and other similar material of a less technical nature ... this book can also serve as part of a course in the nowadays fashionable subject of nanotechnology."Journal of Statistical Physics
Table of ContentsSelf-Similarity; Topological and Statistical Properties of Networks; Bonds and Interactions in Networks; Stochastic Agglomeration Model; Model of Quasi-Crystalline Growth; Nucleation and Growth of Fullerenes; Icosahedral Virus Capsid Growth; Glasses and Their Properties; Kinetics of Crystallization in Liquids; Stochastic Agglomeration Model of Glass Transition; Ternary and Multicomponent Glasses. Immiscibility; Glass Transition and the Cooling Rate; Rigidity, Connectivity and Homogeneity in Glasses.
