Disordered Materials: An Introduction (Advanced Texts in Physics)

Features

• Cover Type: Hard Cover with 329 pages
• Published by: Springer
• Edition: 2nd Edition August 29, 2006
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 3540296093
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-3540296096
• Book Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.3 x 0.9 inches
• Weighs: 1.5 pounds

Product Review


The text is clearly presented, amply illustrated and has approximately 45 references with an equivalent amount of further reading…it provides a fresh viewpoint which makes it well worth careful reading….it provides a stimulating and novel coverage of a difficult subject area.

--Glass Technology

Product Description


This self-contained text introduces the physics of structurally disordered condensed systems at the level of advanced undergraduate and graduate students. Among the topics, the geometry and symmetries of highly regular structures, the various kinds of disorder, the phenomenology and the main theories of the glass transition, the experimental investigation on the structure and microscopic dynamics of amorphous systems and the pertinent modelling, the structure and stability of noble gas, metal and carbon clusters, and their evolution with cluster size, nanostructured solids, the structure of quasicrystals and their relation to nanocrystalline and amorphous solids.

From the reviews of the first edition: "The text is clearly presented, amply illustrated and has approximately 45 references with an equivalent amount of further reading […] it provides a fresh viewpoint which makes it well worth careful reading [and] provides a stimulating and novel coverage of a difficult subject area." Glass Technology



Reader Reviews
This review is from: Disordered Materials (Hardcover) I am a materials science engineer and read this book to learn about diamond-like carbon, which is a disordered material. This book covers a lot of topics, and ues a fair deal of equations and figures. It adequately covers most topics about disordered materials, though I could not find much information about diamond-like carbon. I would not recommend this book as an introductory text on the subject, but it is good for a reference. The text assumes the reader has fairly good knowledge of geometry, math, and solid state science, along with materials science. Much of the text could be rewritten to make it more readable, without reducing content.