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REPORTS ON PROGRESS IN PHYSICS
Volume 79, Issue 6, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0034-4885/79/6/066504
Keywords
glasses; structure; relaxation
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- Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) [09-BLAN-0109-01, 11-BS08-0012]
- French-American Fulbright Commission
- International Materials Institute
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Recent progress in the description of glassy relaxation and aging are reviewed for the wide class of network-forming materials such as GeO2, GexSe1-x, silicates (SiO2-Na2O) or borates (B2O3-Li2O), all of which have an important usefulness in domestic, geological or optoelectronic applications. A brief introduction of the glass transition phenomenology is given, together with the salient features that are revealed both from theory and experiments. Standard experimental methods used for the characterization of the slowing down of the dynamics are reviewed. We then discuss the important role played by aspects of network topology and rigidity for the understanding of the relaxation of the glass transition, while also permitting analytical predictions of glass properties from simple and insightful models based on the network structure. We also emphasize the great utility of computer simulations which probe the dynamics at the molecular level, and permit the calculation of various structure-related functions in connection with glassy relaxation and the physics of aging which reveal the non-equilibrium nature of glasses. We discuss the notion of spatial variations of structure which leads to the concept of 'dynamic heterogeneities', and recent results in relation to this important topic for network glasses are also reviewed.
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