Relaxation and Crystallization of Glasses
1. Basic Thermodynamic Relations (introductory lecture of known facts)
1.1.1. First Postulate (equilibrium theorem)
1.1.2. Second Postulate (temperature)
1.1.3. At least one additional internal parameter is needed to describe a non-equilibrium system, fictive temperature
1.1.4. Entropy, free energy
1.1.5. Examples: Equilibrium conditions
1.1.6. Thermodynamics of Phase Transitions: Classification of Erenfest
1.1.7. Similarity and differences between Second order phase transition and glass transition
1.1.8. Thermodynamic driving forces for crystallization and for relaxation
2. Non-equilibrium Thermodynamics, Hydrodynamic approximation
2.1.1. Balance of mass and of entropy
2.1.2. Local equilibrium principle
3. Kinetic characteristics of glassforming melts; Viscosity
3.1.1. Empirical expression of VFT
3.1.2. Model of Adam & Gibbs
3.1.3. Jump frequency model
3.1.4. Strong and fragile glasses
4. Diffusion in Glasses
4.1.1. Percolation modeel
4.1.2. Monte Carlo Models of diffusion
5. Relaxation kinetics of glasses
5.1.1. Isothermal relaxation
5.1.2. Non isothermal relaxation; Equation of Ritland Bartenev
6. Thermodynamics of small phases. Equation of Thompson Gibbs
6.1.1. Specific Surface energy, Specific edge energy, Specific Vertex energy
6.1.2. Position of half crystal
6.1.3. Equilibrium form of crystals
7.1.1. Equation of Volmer
7.1.2. Becker and Doering equation
8. Kinetics of linear Crystal Growth
8.1.1. Two dimensional growth
8.1.2. Spiral Growth: Screw Dislocations, Radius of Frank
8.1.3. Normal Growth; Melting Kinetics
9. Overall Crystallization Kinetics; Equation of Kholmogorov Avrami
10. Conditions for Glass Formation
10.1.1. Phenomenological approach, Zachariazen model
10.1.2. TTT- curves
11. Crystallization of Glasses: Experiment and Theory
11.1.1. Activation energy for crystallization and for viscous flow
11.1.2. Rigid and Floppy Networks
12. Influence of Stress on Kinetics of Crystallization of Glasses
13.1.1. Ozawa- Kissinger Plots
13.1.2. PA experiments
14. Relativistic Thermodynamics
14.1.1. Entropy invariance
14.1.2. Relativity transformations for Temperature and Heat
14.1.3. General Relativity Thermodynamics