40 Years of Entropy and the Glass Transition

Download or read book 40 Years of Entropy and the Glass Transition written by Gregory B. McKenna and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1997-07 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Articles: configurational entropy approach to the kinetics of glasses; entropy theory and glass transition: a test by Monte Carlo simulation; entropy and fragility in supercooling liquids; entropy crises in glasses and random heteropolymers; Adams-Gibbs formulation of enthalpy relaxation near the glass transition; evidence for glass and spin-glass phase transitions from the dynamic susceptibility; entropy, free volume, and cooperative relaxation; and confirmational entropy contributions to the glass temperature of blends of miscible polymers. Charts, tables and graphs.