Preface |
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Notation |
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Part I Basic Thermodynamics and Kinetics of Phase Transformations |
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1 | (130) |
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3 | (18) |
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1.1 What Is a Phase Transition? |
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3 | (2) |
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5 | (1) |
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6 | (4) |
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1.4 Alloys: Unmixing and Ordering |
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10 | (2) |
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1.5 What Is a Phase Transformation? |
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12 | (3) |
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1.6 Brief Review of Thermodynamics and Kinetics |
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15 | (4) |
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19 | (2) |
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2 Temperature-Composition Phase Diagrams |
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21 | (38) |
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2.1 Intuition and Expectations about Alloy Thermodynamics |
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21 | (6) |
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2.2 Free Energy Curves, Solute Conservation, and the Lever Rule |
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27 | (2) |
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2.3 Common Tangent Construction |
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29 | (3) |
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2.4 Continuous Solid Solubility Phase Diagram |
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32 | (2) |
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2.5 Eutectic and Peritectic Phase Diagrams |
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34 | (3) |
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2.6 Ternary Phase Diagrams |
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37 | (2) |
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2.7 Free Energy of a Solid Solution |
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39 | (5) |
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2.8 Unmixing Phase Diagram |
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44 | (3) |
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2.9 Order-Disorder Phase Diagram |
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47 | (6) |
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2.10 Alloy Phase Diagrams |
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53 | (2) |
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55 | (4) |
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59 | (24) |
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3.1 Processes of Atom Movements in Crystals |
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60 | (4) |
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3.2 The Diffusion Equation |
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64 | (4) |
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3.3 Gaussian and Error Functions in One Dimension |
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68 | (5) |
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3.4 Fourier Series Solutions to the Diffusion Equation |
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73 | (5) |
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3.5 Bessel Functions and Other Special Function Solutions |
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78 | (3) |
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81 | (2) |
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83 | (26) |
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4.1 Nucleation Phenomena and Terminology |
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83 | (2) |
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85 | (4) |
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4.3 Heterogeneous Nucleation |
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89 | (3) |
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4.4 Free Energy Curves and Nucleation |
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92 | (3) |
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95 | (8) |
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4.6 Time-Dependent Nucleation |
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103 | (2) |
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4.7 Nucleation in Multicomponent Systems |
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105 | (2) |
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107 | (2) |
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5 Effects of Diffusion and Nucleation on Phase Transformations |
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109 | (22) |
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5.1 Nonequilibrium Processing of Materials |
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109 | (3) |
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5.2 Alloy Solidification with Suppressed Diffusion in the Solid |
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112 | (6) |
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5.3 Alloy Solidification with Suppressed Diffusion in Both Solid and Liquid |
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118 | (2) |
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5.4 Time, Temperature, and Transformation |
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120 | (2) |
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122 | (3) |
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5.6 Kinetics near Equilibrium |
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125 | (4) |
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129 | (2) |
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Part II The Atomic Origins of Thermodynamics and Kinetics |
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131 | (156) |
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133 | (38) |
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6.1 Atomic Schrodinger Equations and Formalism |
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133 | (2) |
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6.2 Molecular Orbital Theory of Diatomic Molecules |
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135 | (6) |
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6.3 Electronic Bands and the Tight-Binding Model |
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141 | (4) |
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6.4 Free and Nearly-Free Electrons |
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145 | (4) |
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6.5 Some Electronic Structures of Materials |
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149 | (6) |
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6.6 Elastic Constants and the Interatomic Potential |
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155 | (4) |
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159 | (4) |
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163 | (5) |
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168 | (3) |
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171 | (33) |
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171 | (5) |
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7.2 Short-Range Order and the Pair Approximation |
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176 | (3) |
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7.3 Materials Structures and Properties Described by Clusters |
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179 | (5) |
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7.4 Concept of Vibrational Entropy |
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184 | (2) |
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7.5 Phonon Thermodynamics |
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186 | (3) |
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7.6 Bond Proportion Model |
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189 | (8) |
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7.7 Bond-Stiffness-versus-Bond-Length Model |
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197 | (3) |
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200 | (4) |
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204 | (19) |
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8.1 Materials under Pressure at Low Temperatures |
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204 | (5) |
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8.2 Thermal Pressure, a Step beyond the Harmonic Model |
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209 | (2) |
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8.3 Free Energies and Phase Boundaries under Pressure |
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211 | (1) |
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8.4 Chemical Bonding and Antibonding under Pressure |
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212 | (3) |
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8.5 Pressure-Driven Phase Transitions |
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215 | (4) |
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219 | (1) |
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220 | (3) |
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9 Interactions in Microstructures and Constrained Equilibrium |
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223 | (27) |
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9.1 Solid-State Amorphization |
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224 | (1) |
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225 | (3) |
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9.3 Thermodynamics of Complex Materials |
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228 | (3) |
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9.4 Partitioning of Energy in Polycrystals and Single Crystals |
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231 | (2) |
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9.5 Coherency Strains in Chemical Unmixing |
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233 | (3) |
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9.6 Coupling between Unmixing Processes |
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236 | (7) |
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9.7 Factoring the Partition Function |
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243 | (5) |
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248 | (2) |
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10 Atom Movements with the Vacancy Mechanism |
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250 | (37) |
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10.1 Random Walk and Correlations |
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250 | (6) |
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10.2 Correlation Factors for Atoms and Vacancies in Alloys |
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256 | (4) |
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10.3 Phenomena in Alloy Diffusion |
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260 | (8) |
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10.4 Diffusion in a Potential Gradient |
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268 | (4) |
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10.5 Diffusion in a Temperature Gradient |
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272 | (2) |
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10.6 Nonthermodynamic Equilibrium in Driven Systems |
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274 | (3) |
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10.7 Vineyard's Theory of Diffusion |
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277 | (6) |
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283 | (4) |
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Part III Types of Phase Transformations |
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287 | (278) |
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11 Thermodynamics and Phase Transitions at Surfaces |
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289 | (29) |
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289 | (3) |
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11.2 Thermodynamic Roughening Transition |
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292 | (2) |
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11.3 Surface Structure and Kinetics |
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294 | (3) |
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11.4 Energies of Grain Boundaries and Interfaces |
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297 | (6) |
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11.5 Anisotropic Surface Energy |
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303 | (3) |
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11.6 Reactions at Surfaces |
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306 | (5) |
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311 | (2) |
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313 | (5) |
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318 | (24) |
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12.1 Structure and Thermodynamics of Melting |
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318 | (3) |
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12.2 Chemical Trends of Melting |
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321 | (2) |
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12.3 Free Energy of a Solid |
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323 | (6) |
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329 | (2) |
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12.5 Thermodynamic Condition for the Melting Temperature |
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331 | (2) |
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333 | (5) |
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338 | (2) |
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340 | (2) |
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342 | (31) |
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13.1 Solidification Microstructures |
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343 | (5) |
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13.2 Alloy Solidification with Suppressed Diffusion in the Liquid |
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348 | (1) |
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13.3 Constitutional Supercooling |
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349 | (4) |
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13.4 Cellular and Dendritic Microstructures |
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353 | (5) |
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13.5 Dendrite Growth with Solute Segregation |
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358 | (2) |
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360 | (5) |
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13.7 Developments in Solidification Science |
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365 | (5) |
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370 | (3) |
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14 Phase Transformations with Interfaces: 1. Microstructure |
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373 | (25) |
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14.1 Guinier--Preston Zones and Precipitation Sequences |
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373 | (3) |
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14.2 Precipitation at Grain Boundaries and Defects |
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376 | (4) |
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14.3 The Eutectoid Transformation and Pearlite |
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380 | (5) |
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14.4 Heat Treatments of Steel |
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385 | (4) |
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14.5 The Kolmogorov--Johnson--Mehl--Avrami Growth Equation |
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389 | (3) |
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392 | (4) |
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396 | (2) |
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15 Phase Transformations with Interfaces: 2. Energetics and Kinetics |
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398 | (26) |
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15.1 Interface Thermodynamics and Kinetics |
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398 | (5) |
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15.2 Atomistic Model of Interface Motion |
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403 | (3) |
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15.3 Local Nonequilibrium at Fast Interfaces |
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406 | (6) |
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15.4 Elastic Energy and Shape of Growing Plate-Like Precipitates |
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412 | (2) |
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15.5 Elastic Energy and Solute Atoms |
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414 | (8) |
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422 | (2) |
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16 Spinodal Decomposition |
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424 | (17) |
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16.1 Concentration Fluctuations and the Free Energy of Solution |
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424 | (2) |
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16.2 A Square Gradient Term in the Free Energy |
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426 | (5) |
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16.3 Constrained Minimization of the Free Energy |
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431 | (3) |
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16.4 The Diffusion Equation |
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434 | (3) |
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16.5 Effects of Elastic Energy on Spinodal Decomposition |
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437 | (3) |
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440 | (1) |
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441 | (17) |
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17.1 Spatial Distribution of Phases and Interfaces |
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442 | (2) |
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17.2 Order Parameters as Field Quantities |
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444 | (4) |
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17.3 Domain Boundary Structure |
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448 | (4) |
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17.4 Domain Boundary Kinetics |
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452 | (4) |
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456 | (2) |
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18 Method of Concentration Waves and Chemical Ordering |
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458 | (24) |
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18.1 Structure in Real Space and Reciprocal Space |
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458 | (6) |
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18.2 Symmetry and the Star |
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464 | (3) |
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18.3 The Free Energy in k-Space with Concentration Waves |
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467 | (3) |
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18.4 Symmetry Invariance of Free Energy and Landau--Lifshitz Rule for Second-Order Phase Transitions |
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470 | (4) |
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18.5 Thermodynamics of Ordering in the Mean Field Approximation with Long-Range Interactions |
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474 | (5) |
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479 | (3) |
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19 Diffusionless Transformations |
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482 | (29) |
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19.1 Dislocations, Mechanisms, and Twinning |
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482 | (6) |
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488 | (8) |
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19.3 Landau Theory of Displacive Phase Transitions |
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496 | (9) |
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19.4 Crystal Instabilities and Phonons |
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505 | (4) |
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509 | (2) |
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20 Thermodynamics of Nanomaterials |
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511 | (22) |
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20.1 Energies of Atoms at Grain Boundaries in Nanocrystals |
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511 | (2) |
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20.2 Gibbs--Thomson Effect |
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513 | (3) |
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20.3 Atomic Structures of Nanocrystals |
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516 | (4) |
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20.4 Electron Energies in Nanomaterials |
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520 | (4) |
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20.5 Entropy of Nanomaterials |
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524 | (5) |
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20.6 Magnetic Nanoparticles |
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529 | (2) |
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531 | (2) |
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21 Magnetic and Electronic Phase Transitions |
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533 | (32) |
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21.1 Overview of Magnetic and Electronic Phase Transitions |
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534 | (5) |
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21.2 Exchange Interactions |
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539 | (5) |
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21.3 Thermodynamics of Ferromagnetism |
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544 | (4) |
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548 | (3) |
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21.5 Thermodynamics of Antiferromagnetism |
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551 | (2) |
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21.6 Dzyaloshinskii--Moriya Interactions and Skyrmions |
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553 | (4) |
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21.7 Thermodynamics of Ionic Crystals |
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557 | (2) |
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21.8 Ferroelectric Transition |
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559 | (2) |
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561 | (2) |
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563 | (2) |
Further Reading |
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565 | (3) |
References |
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568 | (11) |
Index |
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