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In the present book, we have tried to give an outline of the historical development, of the past and the present state of understanding of a particular kind of condensed matter, i.e., of matter in the vitreous state. We have endeavored to collect all the evidence showing that glasses, as known for many hundredth of years, represent only a particular example of a broad class of thermodynamically non-equilibrium systems with an amorphous (or even a non-amorphous structure), where an increased degree of disorder is kinetically frozen in, corresponding to a higher temperature equilibrium configuration. The present chapter summarizes conclusions and attempts a brief outlook into future possible developments.
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A considerable extension of the scope of problems outlined in the present book including the new major developments of the last decades – sketched here only briefly in the footnotes and partly in some more detail in the appendix – can be found in the following monographs: Schmelzer [689, 695]; Schmelzer and Gutzow [701]; Gutzow et al. [333].
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Gutzow, I.S., Schmelzer, J.W.P. (2013). Concluding Remarks. In: The Vitreous State. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-34633-0_13
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