Phase Transitions in Materials

Brent Fultz is the Rawn Professor of Materials Science and Applied Physics at the California Institute of Technology. His awards include the 2016 William Hume-Rothery Award of The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), the Materials Research Society (MRS) and the Neutron Scattering Society of America (NSSA).

Preface; Notation; Part I. Basic Thermodynamics and Kinetics of Phase Transformations: 2. Temperature-composition phase diagrams; 3. Diffusion; 4. Nucleation; 5. Effects of diffusion and nucleation on phase transformations; Part II. The Atomic Origins of Thermodynamics and Kinetics: 6. Energy; 7. Entropy; 8. Pressure; 9. Interactions in microstructures and constrained equilibrium; 10. Atom movements with the vacancy mechanism; Part III. Types of Phase Transformations: 11. Thermodynamics and phase transitions at surfaces; 12. Melting; 13. Solidification; 14. Phase transformations with interfaces, 1: microstructure; 15. Phase transformations with interfaces, 2: energetics and kinetics; 16. Spinodal decomposition; 17. Phase field theory; 18. Method of concentration waves and chemical ordering; 19. Diffusionless transformations; 20. Thermodynamics of nanomaterials; 21. Magnetic and electronic phase transitions; Further reading; References; Index. Online Chapters – Advanced Topics: 22. Low-temperature analysis of phase boundaries; 23. Statistical kinetics of ordering transformations; 24. Elastic energy of solid precipitates; 25. Diffusion, dissipation, and inelastic scattering; 26. Vibrational thermodynamics of materials at high temperatures; 27. Cooperative behavior near a critical temperature; 28. Phase transitions in quantum materials.