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Theory of Supercooled Liquids and Glasses

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Structural Studies of Liquids and Glasses Using Aerodynamic Levitation

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In this chapter I will attempt to describe the phenomenological understanding of supercooling and the glass transition. A glass is generally defined (Greaves and Sen in Adv Phys 56(1):1–166, 2007 [25]; March and Tosi in Introduction to liquid state physics. World Scientific, Singapore, 2002 [44]) as an amorphous solid that has experienced a glass transition. This obviously raises the question of what constitutes a glass transition, which is a subject that requires significantly more discourse.

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Farmer, T. (2015). Theory of Supercooled Liquids and Glasses. In: Structural Studies of Liquids and Glasses Using Aerodynamic Levitation. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-06575-5_2

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