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Main Title Metastable Systems under Pressure [electronic resource] /
Type EBOOK
Author Rzoska, Sylwester.
Other Authors
Author Title of a Work
Drozd-Rzoska, Aleksandra.
Mazur, Victor.
Publisher Springer Netherlands,
Year Published 2010
Call Number QC176.8.A44
ISBN 9789048134083
Subjects Physics ; Geography ; Planetology ; Engineering
Internet Access
Description Access URL
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3408-3
Collation XVIII, 430 p. online resource.
Notes
Due to license restrictions, this resource is available to EPA employees and authorized contractors only
Contents Notes
Supercooled, glassy system -- The Nature of Glass: Somethings Are Clear -- The Link Between the Pressure Evolution of the Glass Temperature in Colloidal and Molecular Glass Formers -- Evidences of a Common Scaling Under Cooling and Compression for Slow and Fast Relaxations: Relevance of Local Modes for the Glass Transition -- Reorientational Relaxation Time at the Onset of Intermolecular Cooperativity -- Neutron Diffraction as a Tool to Explore the Free Energy Landscape in Orientationally Disordered Phases -- A Procedure to Quantify the Short Range Order of Disordered Phases -- Consistency of the Vogel - Fulcher - Tammann (VFT) Equations For The Temperature-, Pressure-, Volume-and Density- Related Evolutions of Dynamic Properties in Supercooled and Superpressed Glass Forming Liquids/Systems -- Liquid crystals -- Stability and Metastability in Nematic Glasses: a Computational Study -- Phase Ordering in Mixtures of Liquid Crystals and Nanoparticles -- Anomalous Decoupling of the dc Conductivity and the Structural Relaxation Time in the Isotropic Phase of a Rod-Like Liquid Crystalline Compound -- Near-critical mixtures -- An Optical Brillouin Study of a Re-Entrant Binary Liquid Mixture -- New Proposals for Supercritical Fluids Applications -- 2D and 3D Quantum Rotors in a Crystal Field: Critical Points, Metastability, and Reentrance -- Water and liquid-liquid transitons -- Metastable Water Under Pressure -- Critical Lines in Binary Mixtures of Components with Multiple Critical Points -- About the Shape of the Melting Line as a Possible Precursor of a Liquid-Liquid Phase Transition -- Disorder Parameter, Asymmetry and Quasibinodal of Water at Negative Pressures -- Experimental Investigations of Superheated and Supercooled Water (Review of Papers of the School of the Academician V. P. Skripov) -- Estimation of the Explosive Boiling Limit of Metastable Liquids -- Lifetime of Superheated Water in a Micrometric Synthetic Fluid Inclusion -- Explosive Properties of Superheated Aqueous Solutions in Volcanic and Hydrothermal Systems -- Vapour Nucleation in Metastable Water and Solutions by Synthetic Fluid Inclusion Method -- Method of Controlled Pulse Heating: Applications for Complex Fluids and Pol Ymers -- Other metastable systems -- Collective Self-Diffusion in Simple Liquids Under Pressure -- Thermal Conductivity of Metastable States of Simple Alcohols -- Transformation of the Strongly Hydrogen Bonded System into van der Waals one Reflected in Molecular Dynamics -- Effects of Pressure on Stability of Biomolecules in Solutions Studied by Neutron Scattering -- Generalized Gibbs' Thermodynamics and Nucleation-Growth Phenomena -- Self-Assembling of the Metastable Globular Defects in Superheated Fluorite-Like Crystals -- Study of Metastable States of the Precipitates in Reactor Steels Under Neutron Irradiation -- Dynamics of Systems for Monitoring of Environment. recently discovered advantages of amorphous forms of medicines/pharmaceutical products which focused a significant part of industry-related efforts on the GFA (Glass Forming Ability) and the glass temperature (T) versus pressure g dependences. 1 b ? 0 ? ? o ? P ? Pg P ? Pg 0 ? ? ? ? T (P ) = F (P )D (P ) =T 1 + exp ? g g ? 0 ? ? ? ? c + Pg ? ? ? ? 400 1 b 0 o ? ? ? ? P ? P P ? P g g 0 ? ? ? ? T (P ) = F (P )D (P ) =T 1 + exp ? g g 0 ? ? ? ? c ? + P max g ? ? ? ? T ~7 GPa g max P ~ 304 K Liquid g 300 1 HS glass 0 200 -1 mSG ?=0. 044 Liquid -2 100 -3 glass ?=0. 12 -1. 2 -0. 9 -0. 6 -0. 3 0. 0 log T 10 scaled -1 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 P (GPa) g 19 Figure 1. T he pressure evolution of the glass temperature in gl Th ye s cerol ol . id curve shows the parameterization of experimental data via the novel, modifie d Glat Sizm elon type equation, given in the Figure.