Disordered Materials : An Introduction

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910865283403321
• Autore: Ossi Paolo M
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, , 2024; ©2024
• ISBN: 9783662684283; 9783662684269
• Edizione: [3rd ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (380 pages)
• Collana: Graduate Texts in Physics Series
• Disciplina: 530.4/13
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- 1 Platonic Solids: Geometry and Symmetry -- 1.1 The Platonic Solids and Their Duals -- 1.2 Elements of Symmetry in Space -- 1.3 Polytopes in the Four-Dimensional Space and Their Projections onto the Physical Space -- 1.4 Elements of Crystallography -- 1.5 The Reciprocal Lattice -- Further Reading -- 2 Structural Order -- 2.1 Order and Disorder -- 2.2 Rules of Order -- 2.3 Order Parameters -- 2.4 Cellular Disorder and Topological Disorder -- 2.5 Structurally Disordered Materials -- 2.6 Description of Disorder Through Entropy -- References -- 3 The Glass Transition -- 3.1 Phenomenology of the Glass Transition -- 3.2 Theories of the Glass Transition -- 3.2.1 The Adam-Gibbs Theory -- 3.2.2 Free Volume Theory -- 3.2.3 Thermodynamic Theories -- 3.2.4 Mode Coupling Theory -- 3.3 Easiness of Glass Formation -- 3.4 Bulk Metallic Glasses -- References -- 4 The Structure of Disordered Systems -- 4.1 Why Do We Study the Structure of Amorphous Systems? -- 4.2 The Distribution Functions -- 4.3 Scattering -- 4.3.1 X-Rays -- 4.3.2 Electrons -- 4.3.3 Scattering from Multicomponent Systems -- 4.4 X-Ray Absorption Spectroscopy (XAS) -- 4.5 Mössbauer Spectroscopy -- 4.6 Vibrational Spectroscopies -- 4.6.1 IR Spectroscopy of Amorphous Systems -- 4.6.2 Raman Spectroscopy of Amorphous Systems -- 4.7 Short-Range Order -- 4.7.1 Metallic Systems -- 4.7.2 Covalently Bonded Systems -- 4.8 Medium-Range ; Order -- 4.9 Fluctuation Electron Microscopy and the Determination of Medium-Range Order -- 4.10 Structural Models -- 4.10.1 The Dense Random Packing of Hard Spheres' Model -- 4.10.2 The Continuous Random Network Model -- References -- 5 Dynamics in a Structurally Disordered System -- 5.1 Collective Excitations -- 5.2 Transport Through Structural Disorder: Anderson's Localization -- References -- 6 Clusters -- 6.1 Definition of an Atomic Cluster.; 6.2 Synthesis and Detection of Atomic Clusters -- 6.3 Structure of van der Waals Clusters -- 6.4 Structure of Alkali Metal Clusters -- 6.5 The Fullerene C60 and its kin -- 6.6 Nanostructured and Cluster-Assembled Materials -- References -- 7 Quasicrystals -- 7.1 Periodic and Aperiodic Crystals -- 7.2 The Enlarged Notion of Crystal -- 7.3 Quasicrystals and Tilings -- 7.4 Model Structures and Crystalline Approximants -- 7.5 Structural Properties and Stability of Real Quasicrystals -- References -- Appendix -- References -- Index.