Fultz, B. <br/><br/>
Phase transitions in materials / 
Brent Fultz, California Institute of Technology. 
 - xxiv, 563 pages :  illustrations ;  26 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 545-553) and index. 
<br/><br/>Essentials of T-c phase diagrams -- Diffusion -- Nucleation -- Effects of diffusion and nucleation on phase transformations -- Energy -- Entropy -- Pressure -- Atom movements with the vacancy mechanism -- Melting -- Transformations involving precipitates and interfaces -- Spinodal decomposition -- Phase field theory -- Method of concentration waves and chemical ordering -- Diffusionless transformations -- Thermodynamics of nanomaterials -- Magnetic and electronic phase transitions -- Phase transitions in quantum materials -- Low temperature analysis of phase boundaries -- Cooperative behavior near a critical temperature -- Elastic energy of solid precipitates -- Statistical kinetics of ordering transformations -- Diffusion, dissipation, and inelastic scattering -- Vibrational thermodynamics of materials at high temperatures. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781107067240 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2013046223 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Phase transformations (Statistical physics)--Textbooks.<br/>Thermodynamics--Textbooks.<br/>Materials--Thermal properties--Textbooks.<br/>Statistical mechanics--Textbooks.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>QC175.16.P5  / F86 2014 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>530.4/74