1. Introduction: Some Essential Attributes of Glassiness Regarding the Nature of Non-Crystalline Solids (Hiroshi Suga) -- 2. Heat Capacity and Entropy Functions in Strong and Fragile Glass-Formers, Relative to those of Disordering Crystalline Materials (C. Austen Angell) -- 3. Vibration Forms in the Vicinity of Glass Transition, Structural Changes and the Creation of Voids when Assuming the Role of Polarizability (Jaroslav Šesták, Bořivoj Hlaváček, Pavel Hubík, Jiří J. Mareš) -- 4. Some Aspects of Vitrification, Amorphisation and Disordering and the Generated Extent of Nano-Crystallinity (Jaroslav Šesták, Carlos A. Queiroz, Jiří J. Mareš, Miroslav Holeček) -- 5. Basic Role of Thermal Analysis in Polymer Physics (Adam L. Danch) -- 6. Phases of Amorphous, Crystalline, and Intermediate Order in Microphase and Nanophase Systems (Bernhard Wunderlich) -- 7. Thermal Portrayal of Phase Separation in Polymers Producing Nanophase Separated Materials (Ivan Krakovský, Yuko Ikeda) -- 8. Solid Forms of Pharmaceutical Molecules (Bohumil Kratochvíl) -- 9. Chalcogenide Glasses Selected as a Model System for Studying Thermal Properties (Zdeněk Černošek, Eva Černošková, Jana Holubová) -- 10. Viscosity Measurements Applied to Chalcogenide Glass-Forming Systems (Petr Koštál, Jana Shánělová, Jiří Málek) -- 11. Thermal Properties and Related Structural Study of Oxide Glasses (Marek Liška, Mária Chromčíková) -- 12. Oxide Glass Structure, Non-Bridging Oxygen and Feasible Magnetic Properties due to the Addition of Fe/Mn Oxides (Jaroslav Šesták, Marek Liška, Pavel Hubík) -- 13. New Approach to Viscosity of Glasses (Isak Avramov) -- 14. Transport Constitutive Relations, Quantum Diffusion and Periodic Reactions (Jiří J. Mareš, Jaroslav Šesták, Pavel Hubík) -- 15. In-Situ Investigation of the Fast Lattice Recovery during Electropulse Treatment of Heavily Cold Drawn Nanocrystalline Ni-Ti Wires (Petr Šittner, Jan Pilch, B. Malard, Remi Delville, Caroline Curfs) -- 16. Emanation Thermal Analysis as a Method for Diffusion Structural Diagnostics of Zircon and Brannerite Minerals (Vladimír Balek, Iraida M. Bountseva, Igor von Beckman) -- 17. Scanning Transitiometry and its Application in Petroleum Industry and in Polymer and Food Science (Jean-Pierre E. Grolier) -- 18. Constrained States Occurring in Plants Cryo-Processing and the Role of Biological Glasses (Jiří Zámečník, Jaroslav Šesták) -- 19. Thermophysical Properties of Natural Glasses at the Extremes of the Thermal History Profile (Paul Thomas, Jaroslav Šesták, Klaus Heide, Ekkehard Füglein, Peter Šimon) -- 20. Hotness Manifold, Phenomenological Temperature and Other Related Concepts of Thermal Physics (Jiří J. Mareš) -- 21. Historical Roots and Development of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry (Jaroslav Šesták, Pavel Hubík, Jiří J. Mareš).

Glassy, Amorphous and Nano-crystalline Material: Thermal Physics, Analysis, Structure and Properties includes twenty-one chapter contributions from an international array of distinguished academics based in Asia, Australia, Eastern and Western Europe, Russia, and the USA. The book provides a coherent and authoritative overview of cutting-edge themes involving the thermal analysis, applied solid-state physics and the micro-crystallinity of selected materials and their macro- and microscopic thermal properties. Selected chapters featured in the book include: Essential attributes of glassiness regarding the nature of non-crystalline solids; Aspects of vitrification, amorphization, disordering and the extent of nano-crystallinity; The basic role of thermal analysis in polymer physics; Classical and quantum diffusion and their application to the self-organized oscillatory reactions; Specificity of low temperature measurements applied to nano-crystalline diamante; Thermophysical properties of natural glasses at the extremes of the thermal history profile; Phenomenological meaning of temperature as background for the history and development of thermal analysis and calorimetry. Advanced undergraduates, postgraduates and researchers working in the field of thermal analysis and calorimetry will find this contributed volume invaluable.