Metastable Systems under Pressure

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xviii

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2. Supercooled, glassy system

   1. The Nature of Glass: Somethings Are Clear

      • K. L. Ngai, S. Capaccioli, D. Prevosto, M. Paluch

      Pages 3-30

   2. The Link Between the Pressure Evolution of the Glass Temperature in Colloidal and Molecular Glass Formers

      • Sylwester J. Rzoska, Aleksandra Drozd-Rzoska, Attila R. Imre

      Pages 31-37

   3. Evidences of a Common Scaling Under Cooling and Compression for Slow and Fast Relaxations: Relevance of Local Modes for the Glass Transition

      • S. Capaccioli, K. Kessairi, D. Prevosto, Md. Shahin Thayyil, M. Lucchesi, P. A. Rolla

      Pages 39-52

   4. Reorientational Relaxation Time at the Onset of Intermolecular Cooperativity

      • C. M. Roland, R. Casalini

      Pages 53-61

   5. Neutron Diffraction as a Tool to Explore the Free Energy Landscape in Orientationally Disordered Phases

      • Muriel Rovira-Esteva, Luis C. Pardo, Josep LL. Tamarit, F. Javier Bermejo

      Pages 63-77

   6. A Procedure to Quantify the Short Range Order of Disordered Phases

      • Luis Carlos Pardo, Muriel Rovira-Esteva, Josep Lluis Tamarit, Nestor Veglio, Francisco Javier Bermejo, Gabriel Julio Cuello

      Pages 79-91

   7. Consistency of the Vogel — Fulcher — Tammann (VFT) Equations For The Temperature-, Pressure-, Volume-and Density- Related Evolutions of Dynamic Properties in Supercooled and Superpressed Glass Forming Liquids/Systems

      • Aleksandra Drozd-Rzoska, Sylwester J. Rzoska

      Pages 93-106

3. Liquid crystals

   1. Stability and Metastability in Nematic Glasses: a Computational Study

      • Milan Ambrozic, Timothy J. Sluckin, Matej Cvetko, Samo Kralj

      Pages 109-124

   2. Phase Ordering in Mixtures of Liquid Crystals and Nanoparticles

      • Brigita Rožič, Marko Jagodič, Sašo Gyergyek, Gojmir Lahajnar, Vlad Popa-Nita, Zvonko Jagličić et al.

      Pages 125-139

   3. Anomalous Decoupling of the dc Conductivity and the Structural Relaxation Time in the Isotropic Phase of a Rod-Like Liquid Crystalline Compound

      • Aleksandra Drozd-Rzoska, Sylwester J. Rzoska

      Pages 141-149

4. Near-critical mixtures

   1. An Optical Brillouin Study of a Re-Entrant Binary Liquid Mixture

      • F. Javier Bermejo, Louis Letamendia

      Pages 153-166

   2. New Proposals for Supercritical Fluids Applications

      • Sylwester J. Rzoska, Aleksandra Drozd Rzoska

      Pages 167-179

   3. 2D and 3D Quantum Rotors in a Crystal Field: Critical Points, Metastability, and Reentrance

      • Yuri A. Freiman, Balázs Hetényi, Sergei M. Tretyak

      Pages 181-194

5. Water and liquid-liquid transitons

   1. Metastable Water Under Pressure

      • Kevin Stokely, Marco G. Mazza, H. Eugene Stanley, Giancarlo Franzese

      Pages 197-216

   2. Critical Lines in Binary Mixtures of Components with Multiple Critical Points

      • Sergey Artemenko, Taras Lozovsky, Victor Mazur

      Pages 217-232

   3. About the Shape of the Melting Line as a Possible Precursor of a Liquid-Liquid Phase Transition

      • Attila R. Imre, Sylwester J. Rzoska

      Pages 233-236

   4. Disorder Parameter, Asymmetry and Quasibinodal of Water at Negative Pressures

      • Vitaly B. Rogankov

      Pages 237-252

   5. Experimental Investigations of Superheated and Supercooled Water (Review of Papers of the School of the Academician V. P. Skripov)

      • Vladimir G. Baidakov

      Pages 253-270

   6. Estimation of the Explosive Boiling Limit of Metastable Liquids

      • Attila R. Imre, Gábor Házi, Thomas Kraska

      Pages 271-278

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• Department of Biophysics and Molecular Physics Institute of Physics, University of Silesia, Katowice, Poland

  Sylwester Rzoska, Aleksandra Drozd-Rzoska

• Department of Thermodynamics, Odessa State Academy of Refrigeration (OSAR), Odessa, Ukraine

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