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In the framework of the thermodynamics of irreversible processes and using a graphical approach based on the simple theorems of differential geometry, a generic phenomenological treatment of the glass transition is developed. A thermodynamic derivation of the basic kinetic condition for vitrification—the Frenkel–Kobeko–Reiner equation—is given in a new generalized form. The temperature course of the thermodynamic functions and the kinetic characteristics of vitrifying systems are constructed using one of the general principles of irreversible thermodynamics. The results thus obtained underline the substantial differences and formal similarities between vitrification, considered as a diffuse kinetic transition and thermodynamic phase transformations. A general reconsideration of the axiomatics of the thermodynamics and kinetics and kinetics of glass transition and relaxation is attempted.
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Gutzow, I., Yamakov, V., Ilieva, D. et al. Generic Phenomenological Theory of Vitrification. Glass Physics and Chemistry 27, 148–159 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1011384427512
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