Richert R. Blumen A. (Eds.) Disorder Effects on Relaxational Processes: Glasses, Polymers, Proteins

Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, 1994. – 744 p. – ISBN: 3642785786The field of non-crystalline materials has seen the emergence of many challeng ing problems during its long history. In recent years, the interest in polymeric and biological disordered matter has stimulated new activities which in turn have enlarged the organic and inorganic glass community. The current research fields and recent progress have extended our knowledge of the rich phenomenol ogy of glassy systems, where the role of disorder is fundamental for the underlying microscopic dynamics.Disordered Systems and Relaxation
General Approaches
Local and Global Relaxations in Glass-Forming Materials
Translational and Rotational Diffusion Near the Glass Transition
Universal Patterns of Relaxations in Complex Correlated Systems
Models for Relaxations
Models for Transport and Relaxation in Glass Forming and Complex Fluids: Universality?
Mode Coupling Approach to the Glass Transition
Models of Cooperative Dynamics for Liquids Near the Glass Transition
Models for Anomalous Diffusion
Boundary Effects on Dipole-Dipole Interactions and Molecular Relaxation
Dielectric Spectroscopy and Solvation
The Scaling of the α- and -Relaxation in Low Molecular Weight and Polymeric Glassforming Systems
Dielectric Aspects of Dipolar Solvation at the Glass Transition
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance
NMR Studies of Disorder in Molecular Glasses and Crystals
Molecular Dynamics in Polymers from Multidimensional NMR
Hole Burning
Optical Spectroscopy and Disorder Phenomena in Polymers, Proteins and Glasses
Disorder-Induced Relaxation Processes in Amorphous Solids at Low Temperatures.
Stochastic Interpretation of Inhomogeneous Spectroscopic Line Shapes
Transport Phenomena
Basic Aspects of Energy Transport in Disordered Systems
Exciton and Charge Carrier Transport in Random Organic Solids
Dynamics of Energy Transfer in Aromatic Polymers
Energy Transport in Disordered Molecular Crystals
Dynamics in Complex Systems
Relaxation and Disorder in Proteins
Origins of Nonexponential Relaxation in Proteins
Dynamics of Irreversibly Forming Macromolecules
Glass Transitions and Relaxation Phenomena in Orientational Glasses and Supercooled Plastic Crystals
Structural Relaxation in Disordered Diblock Copolymer Melts
Dynamics of Rotational Motion in Liquid Crystalline Systems