This book presents some of the most exciting recent work on supercooled liquids. Topics include domain models of supercooled liquids, inhomogeneity and polymorphism, and Mode-Coupling Theory and its applications. It provides in-depth coverage of supercooled water and of the connections between supercooled liquids and the conformational dynamics of proteins. The introduction includes a detailed discussion of terminology, major problems, and leading theoretical and experimental approaches.
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INTRODUCTION; 1. A Brief Introduction to Supercooled Liquids; OVERVIEW; 2. The Viscous-Liquid Glassy-Solid Problem; THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES ON SUPERCOOLED LIQUIDS; 3. The Mode-Coupling Theory of the Glass Transition; 4. Basic Physics of the Coupling Model: Direct Experimental Evidences; 5. Frustration-Limited Domain Theory of Supercooled Liquids and the Glass Transition; 6. Soft Modes in Glass-Forming Liquids: The Role of Local Stress; 7. Entropic Approach to Relaxation Behavior in Glass-Forming Liquids; 8. The Replica Approach to Glasses; 9. Growing Length Scales in Supercooled Liquids; 10. Shear Viscosity and Diffusion in Supercooled Liquids; 11. Phase Separation in Silicate Melts: Limits of Solubilities; EXPERIMENTAL ADVANCES IN SUPERCOOLED LIQUIDS; 12. Higher Order Time-Correlation Functions from Fluctuating Energy Landscape Models: Comparison with Reduced Four-Dimensional NMR Spectroscopy; 13. High-Frequency Dielectric Spectroscopy of Glass-Forming Liquids; 14. Structural Relaxation of Supercooled Liquids from Impulsive Stimulated Light Scattering; 15. Multiple Time Scales in the Nonpolar Solvation Dynamics of Supercooled Liquids; POLYAMORPHISM AND SUPERCOOLED WATER; 16. Polyamorphic Transitions in Network-Forming Liquids and Glasses; 17. Facts and Speculation Concerning Low-Temperature Polymorphism in Glass Formers; 18. Phase Diagram for Supercooled Water and Liquid-Liquid Transition; 19. The Liquid-Liquid Critical-Point Hypothesis; 20. Slow Dynamics in a Model and Real Supercooled Water; 21. Raman Evidence for the Clathrate-like Structure of Highly Supercooled Water; NOVEL APPLICATIONS: SUPERCOOLED LIQUIDS AND PROTEIN DYNAMICS; 22. Cold Denaturation of Proteins; 23. Vibrational Echo Studies of Heme-Protein Dynamics
