Disordered Materials

Paolo M. OSSI (born in Milan, 1953) PhD in Solid State Physics, is Associate Professor of Physics of Matter at the Dipartimento di Ingegneria Nucleare, Politecnico di Milano. His current research interests include the structure of metastable condensed systems, the interaction between energetic photon and particle beams and solids, the properties (in particular structural and mechanical) of thin films, both metallic and ceramic, deposited in the presence of energetic beams. Paolo M. Ossi is author, or co-author of more than 100 scientific papers, besides many contributions to international Conferences, Workshops and Symposia.

Platonic Solids: Geometry and Symmetry.- Structural Order.- The Glass Transition.- The Structure of Disordered Systems.- Clusters.- Quasicrystals.

From the reviews of the second edition:

The text is clearly presented, amply illustrated and has approximately 45 references with an equivalent amount of further reading...it provides a fresh viewpoint which makes it well worth careful reading....it provides a stimulating and novel coverage of a difficult subject area.

--Glass Technology

"The book is an overview of various models of disordered condensed materials. ... the book covers successively glass transition, structure of disordered systems, atomic clusters and quasicrystals. The book (intended to readers with a good physics background) is easy to read, it is self-contained, and displays many theoretical and experimental illustrative results." (Guy Jumarie, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1145, 2008)