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Phase Transitions and Self-Organization in Electronic and Molecular Networks

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  • © 2001

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  1. M. F. Thorpe

    1. Michigan State University, East Lansing

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  2. J. C. Phillips

    1. Lucent Technologies, Bell Labs Innovations, Murray Hill

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Part of the book series: Fundamental Materials Research (FMRE)

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Table of contents (29 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  3. Glasses and Supercooled Liquids

    1. Evidence for the Intermediate Phase in Chalcogenide Glasses

      • P. Boolchand, W.J. Bresser, D.G. Georgiev, Y. Wang, J. Wells
      Pages 65-84

    2. Thermal Relaxation and Criticality of the Stiffness Transition

      • Y. Wang, T. Nakaoka, K. Murase
      Pages 85-100

    3. Solidity of Viscous Liquids

      • J.C. Dyre
      Pages 101-109

    4. Non-Ergodic Dynamics in Supercooled Liquids

      • M. Dzugutov, S. Simdyankin, F. Zetterling
      Pages 111-122

    5. Network Stiffening and Chemical Ordering in Chalcogenide Glasses: Compositional Trends of Tg in Relation to Structural Information From Solid and Liquid State NMR

      • Carsten Rosenhahn, Sophia Hayes, Gunther Brunklaus, Hellmut Eckert
      Pages 123-141

    6. Glass Transition Temperature Variation as a Probe for Network Connectivity

      • M. Micoulaut
      Pages 143-160

    7. Floppy Modes Effects in the Thermodynamical Properties of Chalcogenide Glasses

      • Gerardo G. Naumis
      Pages 161-170

    8. The Dalton-Maxwell-Pauling Recipe for Window Glass

      • Richard Kerner
      Pages 171-187

    9. Local Bonding, Phase Stability and Interface Properties of Replacement Gate Dielectrics, Including Silicon Oxynitride Alloys and Nitrides, and Film ‘Amphoteric’ Elemental Oxides and Silicates

      • G. Lucovsky
      Pages 189-208

    10. Experimental Methods for Local Structure Determination on the Atomic Scale

      • E.A. Stern
      Pages 209-224

    11. Zeolite Instability and Collapse

      • G.N. Greaves
      Pages 225-246

  5. High Temperature Super conductors

    1. Experimental Evidence for Ferroelastic Nanodomains in HTSC Cuprates and Related Oxides

      • J. Jung
      Pages 311-322
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Advances in nanoscale science show that the properties of many materials are dominated by internal structures. In molecular cases, such as window glass and proteins, these internal structures obviously have a network character. However, in many partly disordered electronic materials, almost all attempts at understanding are based on traditional continuum models. This workshop focuses first on the phase diagrams and phase transitions of materials known to be composed of molecular networks. These phase properties characteristically contain remarkable features, such as intermediate phases that lead to reversibility windows in glass transitions as functions of composition. These features arise as a result of self-organization of the internal structures of the intermediate phases. In the protein case, this self-organization is the basis for protein folding.
The second focus is on partly disordered electronic materials whose phase properties exhibit the same remarkable features. In fact, the phenomenon of High Temperature Superconductivity, discovered by Bednorz and Mueller in 1986, and now the subject of 75,000 research papers, also arises from such an intermediate phase. More recently discovered electronic phenomena, such as giant magnetoresistance, also are made possible only by the existence of such special phases.
This book gives an overview of the methods and results obtained so far by studying the characteristics and properties of nanoscale self-organized networks. It demonstrates the universality of the network approach over a range of disciplines, from protein folding to the newest electronic materials.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Michigan State University, East Lansing

    M. F. Thorpe

  • Lucent Technologies, Bell Labs Innovations, Murray Hill

    J. C. Phillips

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