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The dynamic heterogeneities occurring just before the transition to the glassy phase have been named as the cause of amorphization in supercooled systems. Numerous studies conducted so far have confirmed this hypothesis, and based on it, a widely accepted solution to the puzzle of glass transition h ...

We consider history-dependent behavior in domain-type configurations in orientational order that are formed in configurations reached via continuous symmetry-breaking phase transitions. In equilibrium, these systems exhibit in absence of impurities a spatially homogeneous order. We focus on cases wh ...

We report on strong pretransitional effects across the isotropic liquid–plastic crystal melting temperature in linear and nonlinear dielectric response. Studies were carried out for cyclooctanol (C8H16O) in the unprecedented range of temperatures 120 K < T < 345 K. Such pretransitional effects have ...

This report presents the pressure-temperature (p-T) plane of Bi$_2$O$_3$-Al$_2$O$_3$-SiO$_2$ ternary system in the context of nanocrystallite formation from its amorphous state. The diagram was constructed through differential thermal analysis (DTA) performed in situ under high-pressure-high-tempera ...