Book description
With contributions from 24 global experts in diverse fields, and edited
by world-recognized leaders in physical chemistry, chemical physics and
biophysics,
Structural Glasses and Supercooled Liquids: Theory, Experiment, and Applications
presents a modern, complete survey of glassy phenomena in many systems
based on firmly established characteristics of the underlying molecular
motions as deduced by first principle theoretical calculations, or with
direct/single-molecule experimental techniques. A well-rounded view of a
variety of disordered systems where cooperative phenomena, which are
epitomized by supercooled liquids, take place is provided. These
systems include structural glasses and supercooled liquids, polymers,
complex liquids, protein conformational dynamics, and strongly
interacting electron systems with quenched/self-generated
disorder.
Detailed calculations and reasoned arguments closely
corresponding with experimental data are included, making the book
accessible to an educated non-expert reader.
Peter G. Wolynes, PhD, is the D. R. Bullard-Welch Foundation
Professor of Science at Rice University. For his work, spanning
chemical, biological, and condensed matter physics, he was elected to
the National Academy of Sciences (USA) and the German Academy of
Sciences as well as to the Royal Society of London as a foreign member.
Vassiliy Lubchenko, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Chemistry at
the University of Houston. A recipient of the Beckman Young
Investigator Award and Sloan Research Fellowship, Dr. Lubchenko
researches optoelectronic anomalies of amorphous materials, dynamics
of complex fluids and structural glasses, and aggregation behaviors in
protein solutions.
