The Vitreous State

1. Introduction
Ivan S. Gutzow, Jürn W. P. Schmelzer

2. States of Aggregation, Thermodynamic Phases, Phase Transformations, and the Vitreous State
Ivan S. Gutzow, Jürn W. P. Schmelzer

3. Non-equilibrium Thermodynamics and the Kinetics of Glass Transition and Stabilization
Ivan S. Gutzow, Jürn W. P. Schmelzer

4. General Approaches to the Description of the Structure of Glasses
Ivan S. Gutzow, Jürn W. P. Schmelzer

5. Statistical Physics of Under-cooled Melts and Glasses
Ivan S. Gutzow, Jürn W. P. Schmelzer

6. Kinetics of Crystallization and Segregation: Nucleation in Glass-Forming Systems
Ivan S. Gutzow, Jürn W. P. Schmelzer

7. Catalyzed Crystallization of Glass-Forming Melts
Ivan S. Gutzow, Jürn W. P. Schmelzer

8. Theory of Crystal Growth and Dissolution in Under-cooled Melts: Basic Approaches
Ivan S. Gutzow, Jürn W. P. Schmelzer

9. Growth of Clusters and of Ensembles of Clusters: Ostwald Ripening and Ostwald’s Rule of Stages
Ivan S. Gutzow, Jürn W. P. Schmelzer

10. Kinetics of Overall Crystallization: Kinetic Criteria for Glass-Formation
Ivan S. Gutzow, Jürn W. P. Schmelzer

11. Liquid Phase Separation in Glass-Forming Melts
Ivan S. Gutzow, Jürn W. P. Schmelzer

12. Rheology of Glass-Forming Melts
Ivan S. Gutzow, Jürn W. P. Schmelzer

13. Concluding Remarks
Ivan S. Gutzow, Jürn W. P. Schmelzer

14. Brief Overview on Some New Developments
Ivan S. Gutzow, Jürn W. P. Schmelzer

Keywords: Physics, Condensed Matter Physics, Ceramics, Glass, Composites, Natural Methods, Inorganic Chemistry