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Aleksandra Drozd-Rzoska, Pressure-related universal previtreous behavior of the structural relaxation time and apparent fragility, Frontiers in Materials: Glass Sci.6, 103 (2019)
Aleksandra Drozd-Rzoska, Universal behavior of the apparent fragility in ultraslow glass forming systems, Scientific Reports 9, 6816 (2019)
critical-like portrayal for the pressure path
critical-like & activated scaling terms for the temperature path
In 2019, Aleksandra DROZD-RZOSKA formulated equations that presented fresh insights into the pre-vitreous characteristics of relaxation time and apparent fragility.
NEW Insight into Dynamics of Glass Forming Systems !
It is with great pride that we announce that the article "Verhulst-type equation and the universal pattern for global population growth" by Agata Angelika Sojecka and Aleksandra Drozd-Rzoska published in PLoS One has received recognition and was highlighted on the Polish Academy of Science Portal - LINK
Our Article Highlighted !
Sojecka AA, Drozd-Rzoska A (2025), Verhulst-type equation and the universal pattern for global population growth,
PLoS One 20(5): e0323165
Participation in a Prestigious Project !
We are proud to share that Prof. Aleksandra Drozd-Rzoska has had the great honour and pleasure of participating in a pilot project led by the Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics (University of Maribor, Slovenia, 2022 - 2025) carried out under the Recovery and Resilience Plan (NOO) and had the opportunity to deliver a lecture entitled: Active Human ‘Soft Matter’: The Critical Insight into ‘Doomsday’ Growth of Global Population."
The above equation proposed by A. Drozd-Rzoska (2005) for the PRESSURE dependence of the Tm
melting temperature has been subsequently explored in several reports on SEMICONDUCTORS, namely:
This paper also offers the coherent explanation of the behaviour in Germanium (Ge), silicon (Si) and Gallium Nitride (GaN). GaN is considered the most criticaly important material, nowadays.
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Note that this model includes Negative Pressures Domain, showing that for instance in silicone there is Tm(P) maximum
hidden in this "mystic", isotropically stretched domain.
Searching Universal Scaling Pattern!
The mentioned relation seems to be the solution to the cognitive puzzle and opens the gate to
NEW SOLUTIONS for "materials engineering under pressure" applications.
Tm
Tg
This NEW RELATION remains valid both for the glass temperature and the melting temperature
The NEW RELATION, matched with the derivative-based implementation protocol developed by Aleksandra Drozd-Rzoska [4,5],
introduces the NOVEL DESCRIPTION PATTERN for the melting temperature vs. pressure behaviour.
In today's World, the insight into properties of the semiconductors materials is essential for the semiconductor industry.
Gallium Nitride is considered the next generation material for advanced semiconductor's implementations.
The pressure dependence of the melting temperature is of the primary importance here.
In references [4,5} the long-standing puzzle regarding this issue has been solved.
Note that this model includes Negative Pressures Domain, showing that for instance in silicone there is Tm(P) maximum
hidden in this "mystic", isotropically stretched domain.
PHYSICS of SEMICONDUCTORS
Searching Universal Scaling Pattern
The NEW RELATION seems to be the solution to the cognitive puzzle and opens the gate to NEW SOLUTIONS for "materials engineering under pressure" applications.
Tm
Tg
This NEW RELATION remains valid both for the glass temperature and the melting temperature .
The NEW RELATION, matched with the derivative-based implementation protocol developed by Aleksandra Drozd-Rzoska [4,5],
introduces the NOVEL DESCRIPTION PATTERN for the melting temperature vs. pressure behaviour.
In today's World, the insight into properties of the semiconductors materials is essential for the semiconductor industry.
Gallium Nitride is considered the next generation material for advanced semiconductor's implementations.
The pressure dependence of the melting temperature is of the primary importance here.
In references [4,5} the long-standing puzzle regarding this issue has been solved.
This paper also offers the coherent explanation of the behaviour in Germanium (Ge), silicon (Si) and Gallium Nitride (GaN).
GaN is considered the most criticaly important material, nowadays.
Mentioned above Drozd-Rzoska equation has been subsequently explorated in the following reports:
[4] Aleksandra Drozd-Rzoska, Pressure dependence of the glass temperature in supercooled liquids
Phys. Rev. E 72, 041505 (2005)
[5] Aleksandra Drozd-Rzoska, et al. On the pressure evolution of the melting temperature and the glass transition temperature. J. Non-Cryst. Solids 353, 3915-3923 (2007)
[6] Sylwester Porowski et al. The challenge of decomposition and melting of gallium nitride under high pressure and high temperature Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solid 85 (2015)
Note that this model includes Negative Pressures Domain, showing that for instance in silicone there is Tm(P) maximum
hidden in this "mystic", isotropically stretched domain.
PHYSICS of SEMICONDUCTORS
Searching Universal Scaling Pattern
The mentioned relation seems to be the solution to the cognitive puzzle and opens the gate to NEW SOLUTIONS for "materials engineering under pressure" applications.
Tm
Tg
This NEW RELATION remains valid both for the glass temperature and the melting temperature .
The NEW RELATION, matched with the derivative-based implementation protocol developed by Aleksandra Drozd-Rzoska [4,5],
introduces the NOVEL DESCRIPTION PATTERN for the melting temperature vs. pressure behaviour.
In today's World, the insight into properties of the semiconductors materials is essential for the semiconductor industry.
Gallium Nitride is considered the next generation material for advanced semiconductor's implementations.
The pressure dependence of the melting temperature is of the primary importance here.
In references [4,5} the long-standing puzzle regarding this issue has been solved.
This paper also offers the coherent explanation of the behaviour in Germanium (Ge), silicon (Si) and Gallium Nitride (GaN).
GaN is considered the most criticaly important material, nowadays.
[4] Aleksandra Drozd-Rzoska, Pressure dependence of the glass temperature in supercooled liquids
Phys. Rev. E 72, 041505 (2005)
[5] Aleksandra Drozd-Rzoska, et al. On the pressure evolution of the melting temperature and the glass transition temperature. J. Non-Cryst. Solids 353, 3915-3923 (2007)
[6] Sylwester Porowski et al. The challenge of decomposition and melting of gallium nitride under high pressure and high temperature Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solid 85 (2015)
Changes in the number of HPP processors with the high-pressure volume chamber
𝑉 >100 L. The inset shows the semi-log plot of data from the central, standard’,
bar plot, revealing the exponential behavior (Equation (15)) proved by the blue line.
https://doi.org/10.3390/foods13193028
The general distribution scheme of HPP and HPT-treated dishes focused on specific pro-health requirements. The elements of the system presented in Figure could be used in some branches of the catering business, for example, in popular eateries selling meals ‘by weight’.
https://doi.org/10.3390/foods13193028
NEW Insight into HPP Food !
Our co-authored paper, named the ‘Progressive Review’ has recently been published in an international, peer-reviewed Journal Foods (publisher: MDPI, Basel; included in ISI Master ‘Philadelphia’ Journal List): impact factor IF(2023)=5.2, and100 points of MNiSW (Poland). It is notable, that the Social Institute for Care Excellence(SCIE) awarded the Foods Journal by the highest category Q1.
The 38-page publication entitled: ”Food Preservation in the Industrial Revolution Epoch: Innovative High Pressure Processing (HPP, HPT) for the 21st-Century Sustainable Society ." [A. A. Sojecka, A. Drozd-Rzoska, S. J. Rzoska,
Foods 13(2024) 3028]
This paper is part of a dedicated volume: ‘Future of Food: Innovation & amp; Sustainability’ [Foods 13 (2024)].
The paper discusses the significance of innovative methods of food preservation, with particular emphasis on high pressure processing (HPP), in the context of socio-economic and technological issues that are the driving force of the Industrial Revolution epoch.
We are currently in the 5th Industrial Revolution time, for which Sustainable an, during which sustainable and pro-health development Pro-Health Development is one of the main goals. The paper discusses new business opportunities emerging for innovative implementations of HPPP and HPT methods of food,
including the creation of qualitatively new products.
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Soft Matter systems have common features, such as the dominance of elements or local structures on the mesoscale, combined with their relatively weak interactions, which turns out to be sufficient to obtain a tendency to self-organize with even a small change in parameters. This additionally leads to extraordinary sensitivity to even minor endogenous and exogenous factors, e.g., nanoparticles and pressure. In the case of the latter, relatively low pressures P~1 GPa, or even much lower ones, can lead to phases/states with exotic features, often persisting after decompression.
Worth stressing, that for "classical hard matter" systems, a pressure similar to that at the Earth's core (~300 GPa) is typically required, and the resulting "exotic" properties most often disappear upon decompression.
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