Overview
This self-contained text introduces the physics of structurally disordered condensed systems at the level of advanced undergraduate and graduate students. Among the topics, the geometry and symmetries of highly regular structures, the various kinds of disorder, the phenomenology and the main theories of the glass transition, the experimental investigation on the structure and microscopic dynamics of amorphous systems and the pertinent modelling, the structure and stability of noble gas, metal and carbon clusters, and their evolution with cluster size, nanostructured solids, the structure of quasicrystals and their relation to nanocrystalline and amorphous solids. From the reviews of the first edition: ""The text is clearly presented, amply illustrated and has approximately 45 references with an equivalent amount of further reading [!] it provides a fresh viewpoint which makes it well worth careful reading...[and] provides a stimulating and novel coverage of a difficult subject area."" Glass Technology
Full Product Details
Author: Paolo Ossi
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG
Imprint: Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K
Edition: Second Edition 2006
Dimensions:
Width: 15.50cm
, Height: 1.80cm
, Length: 23.50cm
Weight: 0.528kg
ISBN: 9783642067389
ISBN 10: 3642067387
Pages: 329
Publication Date: 14 March 2012
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
From the reviews of the second edition: The text is clearly presented, amply illustrated and has approximately 45 references with an equivalent amount of further reading...it provides a fresh viewpoint which makes it well worth careful reading....it provides a stimulating and novel coverage of a difficult subject area. --Glass Technology The book is an overview of various models of disordered condensed materials. ... the book covers successively glass transition, structure of disordered systems, atomic clusters and quasicrystals. The book (intended to readers with a good physics background) is easy to read, it is self-contained, and displays many theoretical and experimental illustrative results. (Guy Jumarie, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1145, 2008)
From the reviews of the second edition: The text is clearly presented, amply illustrated and has approximately 45 references with an equivalent amount of further reading…it provides a fresh viewpoint which makes it well worth careful reading….it provides a stimulating and novel coverage of a difficult subject area. --Glass Technology ""The book is an overview of various models of disordered condensed materials. … the book covers successively glass transition, structure of disordered systems, atomic clusters and quasicrystals. The book (intended to readers with a good physics background) is easy to read, it is self-contained, and displays many theoretical and experimental illustrative results."" (Guy Jumarie, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1145, 2008)
From the reviews of the second edition: The text is clearly presented, amply illustrated and has approximately 45 references with an equivalent amount of further reading!it provides a fresh viewpoint which makes it well worth careful reading!.it provides a stimulating and novel coverage of a difficult subject area. --Glass Technology The book is an overview of various models of disordered condensed materials. ! the book covers successively glass transition, structure of disordered systems, atomic clusters and quasicrystals. The book (intended to readers with a good physics background) is easy to read, it is self-contained, and displays many theoretical and experimental illustrative results. (Guy Jumarie, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1145, 2008)
"From the reviews of the second edition: The text is clearly presented, amply illustrated and has approximately 45 references with an equivalent amount of further reading…it provides a fresh viewpoint which makes it well worth careful reading….it provides a stimulating and novel coverage of a difficult subject area. --Glass Technology ""The book is an overview of various models of disordered condensed materials. … the book covers successively glass transition, structure of disordered systems, atomic clusters and quasicrystals. The book (intended to readers with a good physics background) is easy to read, it is self-contained, and displays many theoretical and experimental illustrative results."" (Guy Jumarie, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1145, 2008)"
From the reviews of the second edition: The text is clearly presented, amply illustrated and has approximately 45 references with an equivalent amount of further reading...it provides a fresh viewpoint which makes it well worth careful reading...it provides a stimulating and novel coverage of a difficult subject area. --Glass Technology The book is an overview of various models of disordered condensed materials. ... the book covers successively glass transition, structure of disordered systems, atomic clusters and quasicrystals. The book (intended to readers with a good physics background) is easy to read, it is self-contained, and displays many theoretical and experimental illustrative results. (Guy Jumarie, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1145, 2008)
Author Information
Paolo M. OSSI (born in Milan, 1953) PhD in Solid State Physics, is Associate Professor of Physics of Matter at the Dipartimento di Ingegneria Nucleare, Politecnico di Milano. His current research interests include the structure of metastable condensed systems, the interaction between energetic photon and particle beams and solids, the properties (in particular structural and mechanical) of thin films, both metallic and ceramic, deposited in the presence of energetic beams. Paolo M. Ossi is author, or co-author of more than 100 scientific papers, besides many contributions to international Conferences, Workshops and Symposia.
