中文摘要：

一定压强下对液体进行冷却，若避免晶化，则冷却中液体不可避免地转变为典型非晶态固体——玻璃．这种现象称为玻璃转变，是一种普遍存在的自然现象，涉及多体相互关联体系中众多基础理论问题．近几十年以来，玻璃转变问题的探索过程中，弛豫存在的普适性、其机理／物理图像及其对液体和玻璃性能认知的影响等一直是争论的热点．在梳理β弛豫研究进展的同时，本文尝试对未来β弛豫研究方向进行展望．

英文摘要：

As soon as crystallization is suspended at constant pressure, cooling liquids turn inevitably into rigid amorphous solids, i.e. glasses. The process is a universal phenomenon in nature, termed as glass transition involving many fundamental problems in many-body interaction system and material science. Among the decades research on the glass transition, the universality of β-relaxation, its mechanism and its effects on the understanding of liquids and glasses have been studied argumentatively. In this paper we review the research progress of B-relaxation and also try to point out the tendency of β-relaxation study in future.