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The Glass Transition

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We shall now go on to examine some of the fundamental aspects of liquid-glass transition and the glassy state of matter. We shall pay particular attention to the physical ideas in order to point out those conceptual steps any glass transition theory has to follow.

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Ossi, P.M. (2003). The Glass Transition. In: Disordered Materials. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-05158-0_3

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