Thermodynamic investigation on glassy states of pure simple compounds

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Abstract

The present review deals primarily with glass transition phenomena in pure simple compounds and pays special attention to the thermodynamic aspects of the vitrification process. The concept of glassy state is extended to liquid crystalline and even to crystalline materials which have any type of disorder. Thus the familiar supercooled liquid-glass transition is shown to be just one example of a class of ‘glass transitions’ due to loss of equilibrium which must occur quite frequently in condensed matter. Evidence of several glass transition phenomena in one and the same compound is given. The fact that glass should be considered as one of the states of aggregation of matter, irrespective of either the method of formation or the existence of three-dimensional periodicity in molecular arrangements, is stressed.

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