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The book contains a carefully selected works of fourteen internationally recognized scientists involving the advances of the physics and chemistry of the glassy and amorphous states.

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Provides a summary of non-equilibrium glassy and amorphous structures and their macro- and microscopic thermal properties.
The book contains a carefully selected works of fourteen internationally recognized scientists involving the advances of the physics and chemistry of the glassy and amorphous states.

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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 Sesták, Borivoj Hlavácek, Pavel Hubík, Jirí J. Mares).- 4. Some Aspects of Vitrification, Amorphisation and Disordering and the Generated Extent of Nano-Crystallinity (Jaroslav Sesták, Carlos A. Queiroz, Jirí J. Mares, Miroslav Holecek).- 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 Krakovskì, Yuko Ikeda).- 8. Solid Forms of Pharmaceutical Molecules (Bohumil Kratochvíl).- 9. Chalcogenide Glasses Selected as a Model System for Studying Thermal Properties (Zdenek Cernosek, Eva Cernosková, Jana Holubová).- 10. Viscosity Measurements Applied to Chalcogenide Glass-Forming Systems (Petr Kostál, Jana Shánelová, Jirí Málek).- 11. Thermal Properties and Related Structural Study of Oxide Glasses (Marek Liska, Mária Chromcíková).- 12. Oxide Glass Structure, Non-Bridging Oxygen and Feasible Magnetic Properties due to the Addition of Fe/Mn Oxides (Jaroslav Sesták, Marek Liska, Pavel Hubík).- 13. New Approach to Viscosity of Glasses (Isak Avramov).- 14. Transport Constitutive Relations, Quantum Diffusion and Periodic Reactions (Jirí J. Mares, Jaroslav Sesták, Pavel Hubík).- 15. In-Situ Investigation of the Fast Lattice Recovery during Electropulse Treatment of Heavily Cold Drawn Nanocrystalline Ni-Ti Wires (Petr Sittner, Jan Pilch, B. Malard, Remi Delville, Caroline Curfs).- 16. Emanation Thermal Analysis as a Method for Diffusion Structural Diagnostics of Zircon and Brannerite Minerals (Vladimír 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 (Jirí Zámecník, Jaroslav Sesták).- 19. Thermophysical Properties of Natural Glasses at the Extremes of the Thermal History Profile (Paul Thomas, Jaroslav Sesták, Klaus Heide, Ekkehard Füglein, Peter Simon).- 20. Hotness Manifold, Phenomenological Temperature and Other Related Concepts of Thermal Physics (Jirí J. Mares).- 21. Historical Roots and Development of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry (Jaroslav Sesták, Pavel Hubík, Jirí J. Mares).

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