Pressure is one of the essential thermodynamic variables that,
due to some former experimental difficulties, was long known as the
forgotten variable. But this has changed over the last decade. This
book includes the most essential first experiments from the 1960s
and reviews the progress made in understanding glass formation with
the application of pressure in the last ten years. The systems
include amorphous polymers and glass-forming liquids, polypeptides
and polymers blends. The thermodynamics of these systems, the
relation of the structural relaxation to the chemical specificity,
and their present and future potential applications are discussed
in detail. The book provides (a) an overview of systems exhibiting
glassy behavior in relation to their molecular structure and
provides readers with the current state of knowledge on the
liquid-to-glass transformation, (b) emphasizes the relation between
thermodynamic state and dynamic response and (c) shows that the
information on the pressure effects on dynamics can be employed in
the design of materials for particular applications. It is meant to
serve as an advanced introductory book for scientists and graduate
students working or planning to work with dynamics. Several
scientific papers dealing with the effects of pressure on dynamics
have appeared in leading journals in the fields of physics in the
last ten years. The book provides researchers and students new to
the field with an overview of the knowledge that has been gained in
a coherent and comprehensive way.
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