00000cmm a22000004i 4500 UP-99796217611094977 Buklod 20140129112826.0 m go j cr |n |||auu|a 101126s2011 xx u | eng d 9783642049026 (eBook) (iLib)UPD-00212404354 DML eng DMLUC TP 857 M65 2011eb Floudas, George 1961- Molecular dynamics of glass-forming systems [electronic resource] effects of pressure George Floudas...[et al.]. Heidelberg New York Springer c2011. 1 online resource (xii, 173 p.) Advances in Dielectrics 1 The Glass "transition"; Origin of glass formation; Models of temperature-pressure dependence of structural relaxation time; New physics gained by the application of pressure in the study of dynamics of glass-formers; Pressure effects on polymer blends; Polypeptide dynamics. IP-based subscription, access limited to within on-campus computer network. Access via Electronic Resources of the UPD University Library Website. Pessure is one of the essential thermodynamic variables that, due to some former experimental difficulties, was long known as the ?forgotten variable.? But this has changed over the last decade. This book includes the most essential first experiments from the 1960s and reviews the progress made in understanding glass formation with the application of pressure in the last ten years. The systems include amorphous polymers and glass-forming liquids, polypeptides and polymers blends. The thermodynamics of these systems, the relation of the structural relaxation to the chemical specificity, and their present and future potential applications are discussed in detail. The book provides (a) an overview of systems exhibiting glassy behavior in relation to their molecular structure and provides readers with the current state of knowledge on the liquid-to-glass transformation, (b) emphasizes the relation between thermodynamic state and dynamic response and (c) shows that the information on the pressure effects on dynamics can be employed in the design of materials for particular applications. It is meant to serve as an advanced introductory book for scientists and graduate students working or planning to work with dynamics. Several scientific papers dealing with the effects of pressure on dynamics have appeared in leading journals in the fields of physics in the last ten years. The book provides researchers and students new to the field with an overview of the knowledge that has been gained in a coherent and comprehensive way. Electronic reproduction. New York SpringerLink 2011. Available via World Wide Web through SpringerLink. Molecular dynamics. Solid-liquid interfaces Thermodynamics. Dielectrics. Electronic books. Paluch, Marian. Grzybowski,Andrzej. Ngai, Kai. SpringerLink (Online service). Available for University of the Philippines Diliman via SpringerLink. Click here to access http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04902-6 (viewed 26 May 2014) FO Monograph UPD DMLR Electronic Resource