The Physics of Phase Transitions: Concepts and ApplicationsThis book occupies an important place at the crossroads of several fields central to materials sciences. The expanded second edition incorporates new developments in the states of matter physics, and includes end-of-chapter problems and complete answers. |
Contents
Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics of Phase | 1 |
2 | 31 |
Dynamics of Phase Transitions | 37 |
and Properties of Materials | 75 |
4 | 122 |
པ | 165 |
6 | 189 |
Transitions and Collective Phenomena in Solids | 214 |
Liquid Crystals | 251 |
Microstructures Nanostructures and Phase Transitions | 305 |
Transitions in Thin Films 335 | 334 |
Phase Transitions under Extreme Conditions and | 347 |
Answers to Problems | 377 |
A Conditions for Phase Equilibrium | 391 |
B PercusYevick Equation | 393 |
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