Amorphous and Liquid Materials

✍ Scribed by H. Frauenfelder (auth.), E. Lüscher, G. Fritsch, G. Jacucci (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 1987
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 525
• Series: NATO ASI Series 118
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Six years passed by since the NATO ASI on "Liquid and Amorphous Metals" was held in Zwiesel, Germany, in September 1979. The present one is the second NATO School devoted to research on disordered condensed matter, mainly liquid and amorphous metals. This time the title contains the word "materials" to explicitely include those aspects of the glassy state of insulators either shared with metallic glasses - e.g. the glass tran­ sition - or on the border line with metallic systems - e.g. the metal­ non-metal transition. The long period which purposely elapsed between the two Institutes indi­ cates the intention not to have "just another conference", but to review the state of affairs in the field with a somewhat more durable scope. This is especially important to help basic research to bridge towards applica­ tions and to introduce young researchers in this field. In fact, while the understanding of these materials and their properties is a tremendous challenge for experimental and theoretical physicists, glassy substances offer an enormous potential in-the development of new materials for tech­ nical applications. To this end, the Institute has brought together insiders and peers from allover the world to discuss basic principles and latest results and to help correlate future research effort. Another important aim was to intro­ duce newcomers to the field.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-XII
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Proteins and Glasses....Pages 3-18
Fractals and Localization....Pages 19-28
Relation Between Microstructure Transport and Optical Properties in Composite Materials....Pages 29-33
Comments on the Mode Coupling Theory of the Liquid Glass Transition....Pages 34-81
Computer Simulation Studies of Atomic Structure and Dynamics Relevant to Liquid and Amorphous Alloys....Pages 82-98
On Surface Properties of the Classical One-Component Plasma....Pages 99-102
Front Matter....Pages 103-103
Relations between Atomic Arrangement and Electronic Structure in Liquid Metals and Alloys....Pages 105-117
Liquid Structure and Freezing of Metals and Molten Salts....Pages 118-134
The Structure of Liquid Binary Alloys....Pages 135-138
Glass Transition in Simple Molten Salts....Pages 139-141
Local Order at the Manganese Sites in Ionic Solutions by XANES (X-ray absorption near edge structure)....Pages 142-145
“Bond”-Orientational Short Range Order in Liquid Aluminium....Pages 146-148
Front Matter....Pages 149-149
Atomic Short Range Order in Amorphous Materials....Pages 151-163
Electronically Driven Structural Effects in Liquid and Amorphous Metals and Alloys....Pages 164-187
The Origin of Microstructures of Rapidly Solidified Alloys....Pages 188-199
Disorder in Metals—Selected Problems....Pages 200-217
Defects in Amorphous Alloys....Pages 218-232
Superconducting and Structural Properties of Amorphous Zr(Ni,Mo,W)-Alloys....Pages 233-236
Front Matter....Pages 237-237
Atomic Motions in Liquids....Pages 239-257
Experimental Studies of Atomic Motions in Liquid Metals....Pages 258-278
Front Matter....Pages 237-237
Atomic Dynamics in Binary Liquids with Attractive A-B Interaction....Pages 279-293
Transition from Gaussian to Dispersive Atomic Transport in Amorphous Materials....Pages 294-303
Interaction Effects in Liquids with Low Electron Densities....Pages 304-311
Nuclear Quadrupolar Relaxation and Thermodynamics in Liquid Ternary Alloys....Pages 312-314
Single Particle Motion in Liquid Sodium....Pages 315-318
Front Matter....Pages 319-319
Electronic Structure and Transport in Amorphous and Liquid Metals....Pages 321-332
Electronic Structure of Metallic Glasses — Bulk and Surface Properties....Pages 333-344
Fluid Metals at High Temperatures....Pages 345-367
Low Temperature Transport Properties: The Electrical Resistivity of Some Amorphous Alloys....Pages 368-390
Amorphous Metals at High Pressure....Pages 391-404
Electron Localization in the Liquid T1-Te-System as Seen by Bi-Impurity....Pages 405-407
Temperature Dependence of the Hall-Effect in Some Amorphous Transition Metal Alloys....Pages 408-413
Magnetoresistance Studies of Amorphous Fezr Alloys....Pages 414-417
Magnetoconductivity of MgZn Metallic Glasses at Low Temperatures....Pages 418-422
Optical Properties of Pt-Si Glasses....Pages 423-426
Electrical Resistivity of Liquid Rare Earth-Transition Alloys of Nickel with Lanthanum and Cerium....Pages 427-431
Front Matter....Pages 433-433
Formation of Non-Crystalline Metallic Alloys with and without Rapid Quenching....Pages 435-449
Materials Amorphized by Laser Irradiation....Pages 450-460
How to Produce Well-Defined Amorphous Alloys....Pages 461-478
Ion Implantation and Amorphisation in Metallic Systems....Pages 479-497
Front Matter....Pages 433-433
Surface Amorphous Alloys Obtained by Ion-Mixing....Pages 498-501
Organometallic Glass-Forming Materials and their Structure....Pages 502-507
Bulk Amorphous Metals by Solid State Reaction....Pages 508-514
Back Matter....Pages 515-521

✦ Subjects

Characterization and Evaluation of Materials