Recent progress in the description of glassy relaxation and aging are reviewed for the wide
class of network-forming materials such as GeO 2, Ge x Se 1− x, silicates (SiO 2–Na 2 O) or …

Significant progress was achieved with the application of Rietveld method to characterize
the crystalline phases in portland cement paste. However, to obtain detailed information on …

This book gives a pedagogical introduction to the physics of amorphous solids and related
disordered condensed matter systems. Important concepts from statistical mechanics such …

Addition of alumina to sodium silicate glasses considerably improves the mechanical
properties and chemical durability and changes other properties such as ionic conductivity …

Detailed understanding of the reactions and processes which govern silicate–water
interactions is critical to geological, materials, and environmental sciences. Interactions …

The structure of liquid alumina at a temperature∼ 2400 K near its melting point was
measured using neutron and high-energy x-ray diffraction by employing containerless …

The compositional dependence of the first sharp diffraction peaks (FSDPs) of lithium, sodium
and potassium silicate glasses were studied by calculating the neutron static structure …

Glasses are widely used as analogues for the study of silicate melts. Although they are solid
materials, their structure is inherently complex and difficult to study. However, progress has …

Liquid Al2O3 has been supercooled more than 500 K below its melting point (T m= 2,327 K)
using aerodynamic levitation and laser heating techniques. High energy synchrotron x-ray …

We study a calcium aluminosilicate glass of composition (SiO2) 0.67–(Al2O3) 0.12–(CaO)
0.21 by means of molecular-dynamics simulations, using a potential made of two-body and …