Review Article
Viscosity and Glass Transition in Amorphous Oxides
Table 5
Basic glass transition models.
| Model | Ordering process | Key concept |
| Free-volume | No | Change
in free (excess) volume | Adam-Gibbs | No | Cooperativity
of motion | Mode-coupling
theory | No | Self-trapping
(caging) | Kinetically
constrained | No | Mobility
defects | Frustration | Icosahedral
ordering in glassy phase | Frustration | The
Tanaka TOP | Crystallisation | Competing
ordering (frustration) | Configuron percolation | Percolation
cluster of broken bonds in liquid phase | Broken
bond (configuron) clustering |
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