Disordered Materials
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: December 16, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9783540413288
Subjects: Materials science; States of matter; Science/Mathematics; Solid State Physics; Structural Properties Of Materials; Science; Engineering - General; Physics; Amorphous solids; Science / Physics; Structural disorder; clusters; glass transition; quasicrystals; Material Science; Amorphous substances; Order-disorder models
First sentence: It does seem somewhat difficult and artificial to talk about condensed matter with irregular structure without first making some reference to its "non pathological" counterpart, those crystals that made up the entire world of solid state physics up to a few years ago.