Metastable Systems under Pressure

recently discovered advantages of amorphous forms of medicines/pharmaceutical products which focused a significant part of industry-related efforts on the GFA (Glass Forming Ability) and the glass temperature (T) versus pressure g dependences. 1 b ? 0 ? ? o ? P ? Pg P ? Pg 0 ? ? ? ? T (P ) = F (P )D (P ) =T 1 + exp ? g g ? 0 ? ? ? ? c + Pg ? ? ? ? 400 1 b 0 o ? ? ? ? P ? P P ? P g g 0 ? ? ? ? T (P ) = F (P )D (P ) =T 1 + exp ? g g 0 ? ? ? ? c ? + P max g ? ? ? ? T ~7 GPa g max P ~ 304 K Liquid g 300 1 HS glass 0 200 -1 mSG ?=0. 044 Liquid -2 100 -3 glass ?=0. 12 -1. 2 -0. 9 -0. 6 -0. 3 0. 0 log T 10 scaled -1 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 P (GPa) g 19 Figure 1. T he pressure evolution of the glass temperature in gl Th ye s cerol ol . id curve shows the parameterization of experimental data via the novel, modifie d Glat Sizm elon type equation, given in the Figure.

Contains both review articles as well as novel results at the very cutting edge of the current science There is the first message on the universal onset of the complex dynamics in glasses, the validity of the picture "one liquid two glasses" for molecular liquids, novel VFT equation counterparts or surprising features of liquid crystals and nanoparticles are extremely hot issue for any specialist in the given field Also clearly interdisciplinary, since it contains a comprehensive presentation of papers ranging from various branches of the soft matter physic through biotechnological issues to environmental/geophysical/deep earth issue

Inhalt
Supercooled, glassy system.- The Nature of Glass: Somethings Are Clear.- The Link Between the Pressure Evolution of the Glass Temperature in Colloidal and Molecular Glass Formers.- Evidences of a Common Scaling Under Cooling and Compression for Slow and Fast Relaxations: Relevance of Local Modes for the Glass Transition.- Reorientational Relaxation Time at the Onset of Intermolecular Cooperativity.- Neutron Diffraction as a Tool to Explore the Free Energy Landscape in Orientationally Disordered Phases.- A Procedure to Quantify the Short Range Order of Disordered Phases.- Consistency of the Vogel Fulcher Tammann (VFT) Equations For The Temperature-, Pressure-, Volume-and Density- Related Evolutions of Dynamic Properties in Supercooled and Superpressed Glass Forming Liquids/Systems.- Liquid crystals.- Stability and Metastability in Nematic Glasses: a Computational Study.- Phase Ordering in Mixtures of Liquid Crystals and Nanoparticles.- Anomalous Decoupling of the dc Conductivity and the Structural Relaxation Time in the Isotropic Phase of a Rod-Like Liquid Crystalline Compound.- Near-critical mixtures.- An Optical Brillouin Study of a Re-Entrant Binary Liquid Mixture.- New Proposals for Supercritical Fluids Applications.- 2D and 3D Quantum Rotors in a Crystal Field: Critical Points, Metastability, and Reentrance.- Water and liquid-liquid transitons.- Metastable Water Under Pressure.- Critical Lines in Binary Mixtures of Components with Multiple Critical Points.- About the Shape of the Melting Line as a Possible Precursor of a Liquid-Liquid Phase Transition.- Disorder Parameter, Asymmetry and Quasibinodal of Water at Negative Pressures.- Experimental Investigations of Superheated and Supercooled Water (Review of Papers of the School of the Academician V. P.Skripov).- Estimation of the Explosive Boiling Limit of Metastable Liquids.- Lifetime of Superheated Water in a Micrometric Synthetic Fluid Inclusion.- Explosive Properties of Superheated Aqueous Solutions in Volcanic and Hydrothermal Systems.- Vapour Nucleation in Metastable Water and Solutions by Synthetic Fluid Inclusion Method.- Method of Controlled Pulse Heating: Applications for Complex Fluids and Pol Ymers.- Other metastable systems.- Collective Self-Diffusion in Simple Liquids Under Pressure.- Thermal Conductivity of Metastable States of Simple Alcohols.- Transformation of the Strongly Hydrogen Bonded System into van der Waals one Reflected in Molecular Dynamics.- Effects of Pressure on Stability of Biomolecules in Solutions Studied by Neutron Scattering.- Generalized Gibbs' Thermodynamics and Nucleation-Growth Phenomena.- Self-Assembling of the Metastable Globular Defects in Superheated Fluorite-Like Crystals.- Study of Metastable States of the Precipitates in Reactor Steels Under Neutron Irradiation.- Dynamics of Systems for Monitoring of Environment.