Schmelzer J.W.P., Gutzow I.S., Mazurin O.V, Priven A.I., Todorova S.V., Petroff B.P. Glasses and the Glass Transition

Wiley-VCH, 2011, 408 pages, ISBN: 3527409688Written by the best researchers in the field, this up-to-date treatise fills the gap for a high-level work discussing current materials and processes. It covers all the steps involved, from vitrification, relaxation and viscosity, right up to the prediction of glass properties, paving the way for improved methods and applications.
For solid state physicists and chemists, materials scientists, and those working in the ceramics industry.the present book presents a thorough discussion about the nature of glass, with a rich historical background on the most basic properties of glasses including vitrification kinetics, relaxation and glass transition. It cites more than 650 articles. This book will certainly be a very useful reference for experienced researchers as well as for post-graduate students who are interested in understanding the nature of glass and the application of the laws of thermodynamics to nonequilibrium materials such as glasses.Basic Properties and the Nature of Glasses: an Overview
Generic Theory of Vitrification of Glass-Forming Melts
Generic Approach to the Viscosity and the Relaxation Behavior of Glass-Forming Melts
Thermodynamics of Amorphous Solids, Glasses, and Disordered Crystals
Principles and Methods of Collection of Glass Property Data and Analysis of Data Reliability
Methods of Prediction of Glass Properties from Chemical Compositions
Glasses as Accumulators of Free Energy and Other Unusual Applications of Glasses
Glasses and the Third Law of Thermodynamics
On the Etymology of the Word Glass in European Languages and Some Final Remarks