PhD in Chemical and Materials Sciences

The vitreous state

The vitreous state

Academic year 2017/2018

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Program

This short course is intended to provide an overview on some scientific and technological issues concerning glasses.
Topics:
Definition of non-crystalline solids and glasses.
The structure of glasses: short and medium range order.
Glass-forming liquids and the glass transition: thermodynamic and transport properties.
Conditions for vitrification: nucleation and growth of crystals. Synthesis of glasses.
Structural relaxation in glasses.
Selected properties of glassy materials: mechanical, thermal, optical, electronic properties.

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