1 Introduction: Some Essential Attributes of Glassiness
Regarding the Nature of Non-crystalline Solids ............... 1
Hiroshi Suga
2 Heat Capacity and Entropy Functions in Strong and Fragile
Glass-Formers, Relative to Those of Disordering
Crystalline Materials ....................................... 21
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 .................................. 41
Jaroslav Šesták, Bořivoj Hlaváček, Pavel Hubík, and
Jiří J. Mareš
4 Some Aspects of Vitrification, Amorphisation and
Disordering and the Generated Extent of
Nano-Crystallinity .......................................... 59
Jaroslav Šesták, Carlos A. Queiroz, Jiří J. Mareš, and
Miroslav Holeček
5 Basic Role of Thermal Analysis in Polymer Physics ........... 77
Adam L. Danch
6 Phases of Amorphous, Crystalline, and Intermediate Order
in Microphase and Nanophase Systems ......................... 93
Bernhard Wunderlich
7 Thermal Portrayal of Phase Separation in Polymers
Producing Nanophase Separated Materials .................... 115
Ivan Krakovský and Yuko Ikeda
8 Solid Forms of Pharmaceutical Molecules .................... 129
Bohumil Kratochvíl
9 Chalcogenide Glasses Selected as a Model System for
Studying Thermal Properties ................................ 141
Zdenĕk Černošek, Eva Černošková, and Jana Holubová
10 Viscosity Measurements Applied to Chalcogenide Glass-
Forming Systems ............................................ 165
Petr Koštál, Jana Shánělová, and Jiří Málek
11 Thermal Properties and Related Structural Study of Oxide
Glasses .................................................... 179
Marek Liška and Mária Chromčíková
12 Oxide Glass Structure, Non-bridging Oxygen and Feasible
Magnetic Properties due to the Addition of Fe/Mn Oxides .... 199
Jaroslav Sešták, Marek Liška, and Pavel Hubík
13 New Approach to Viscosity of Glasses ....................... 217
Isak Avramov
14 Transport Constitutive Relations, Quantum Diffusion and
Periodic Reactions ......................................... 227
Jiří J. Mareš, Jaroslav Sešták, and Pavel Hubík
15 In-Situ Investigation of the Fast Lattice Recovery during
Electropulse Treatment of Heavily Cold Drawn
Nanocrystalline Ni-Ti Wires ................................ 245
Petr Šittner, Jan Pilch, Benoit Malard, Remi Delville,
and Caroline Curfs
16 Emanation Thermal Analysis as a Method for Diffusion
Structural Diagnostics of Zircon and Brannerite Minerals ... 261
Vladimír Balek, Iraida M. Bountseva, and Igor von Beckman
17 Scanning Transitiometry and Its Application in Petroleum
Industry and in Polymer and Food Science ................... 271
Jean-Pierre E. Grolier
18 Constrained States Occurring in Plants Cryo-Processing
and the Role of Biological Glasses ......................... 291
Jiří Zámečník and Jaroslav Sešták
19 Thermophysical Properties of Natural Glasses at the
Extremes of the Thermal History Profile .................... 311
Paul Thomas, Jaroslav Sešták, Klaus Heide, Ekkehard
Füglein, and Peter Šimon
20 Hotness Manifold, Phenomenological Temperature and Other
Related Concepts of Thermal Physics ........................ 327
Jiří J. Mareš
21 Historical Roots and Development of Thermal Analysis and
Calorimetry ................................................ 347
Jaroslav Sešták, Pavel Hubík, and Jiří J. Mareš
Index ......................................................... 371
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