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Preface
N E I T H E R T H E W I N D O W I N Y O U R O F F I C E nor the Hawaiian Islands could have teen formed without the assistance of supercooled liquids. Indeed, supercooled liquids are omnipresent in the physical and natural sciences and i n engineering and technology. Because of this broad interest, supercooled liquids have long been the subject of considerable scientific scrutiny (and w i l l continue to be so until their innermost secrets are revealed). This volume is the result of a symposium presented at the 212th National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, titled "Experimental and Theoretical Approaches to Supercooled Liquids: Advances and Novel Applications", sponsored by the A C S Division of Physical Chemistry, in Orlando, Florida, August 25-29, 1996. This symposium brought together scientists from a wide range of disciplines to allow the cross-fertilization of ideas from these different areas, to assess the state of the field, to chart new experimental and theoretical directions for the field, and to identify other areas of science in which the tools developed for understanding supercooled liquids might provide some illumination. Those attending the symposium included chemists, physicists, biologists, biophysicists, geologists, nuclear engineers, and polymer engineers with expertise in experiments, theory, and simulations. Special attention was devoted to the properties of supercooled water and to the connections between supercooled liquids and the conformational dynamics of proteins. The chapters of this volume provide a representative sampling of the science discussed at the symposium. We have endeavored, however, to make this book more than a proceedings of the symposium. Together with the authors of the chapters, we have prepared what we hope is a graduate-level primer on the state of the art of supercooled liquids and the techniques that are used to understand them. T o that end, Chapter 1 is intended as a brief introduction to the field of supercooled liquids for the neophyte. Austen Angell presents a detailed scientific overview of M s volume in Chapter 2. This overview is followed by sections devoted to theoretical aspects of supercooled liquids, to recent experimental advances in the field, to polyamorphism and supercooled water, and to the connections between supercooled liquids and protein dynamics.
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Acknowledgments We are grateful to the authors and other participants i n the symposium, the Petroleum Research Fund, the College of Arts and Sciences at Boston College, and the A C S Division of Physical Chemistry for helping to make this symposium and this volume possible.
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JOHN T. FOURKAS UDAYAN MOHANTY Eugene F. Merkert Chemistry Center Boston College Chestnut Hill, M A 02167 DANIEL KIVELSON Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry University of California Los Angeles, C A 90095 KEITH A. NELSON Department of Chemistry Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, M A 02139 June 18, 1997
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