Materials Kinetics: Transport and Rate Phenomena

By John C. Mauro

Covers the full breadth of materials kinetics, including organic and inorganic materials, solids and liquids, theory and experiments, macroscopic and microscopic interpretations, and analytical and computational approaches

1. Thermodynamics vs. Kinetics

2. Irreversible Thermodynamics

3. Fick's Laws of Diffusion

4. Analytical Solutions of the Diffusion Equation

5. Multicomponent Diffusion

6. Numerical Solutions of the Diffusion Equation

7. Atomic Models for Diffusion

8. Diffusion in Crystals

9. Diffusion in Polycrystalline Materials

10. Motions of Dislocations and Interfaces

11. Morphological Evolution in Polycrystalline Materials

12. Diffusion in Polymers and Glasses

13. Kinetics of Phase Separation

14. Nucleation and Crystallization

15. Advanced Nucleation Theories

16. Viscosity of Liquids

17. Nonequilibrium Viscosity and the Glass Transition

18. Energy Landscapes

19. Broken Ergodicity

20. Master Equations

21. Relaxation of Glasses and Polymers

22. Molecular Dynamics

23. Monte Carlo Techniques

24. Fluctuations in Condensed Matter

25. Chemical Reaction Kinetics

26. Thermal and Electrical Conductivities

Materials Kinetics: Transport and Rate Phenomena

By John C. Mauro

Covers the full breadth of materials kinetics, including organic and inorganic materials, solids and liquids, theory and experiments, macroscopic and microscopic interpretations, and analytical and computational approaches