Materials Kinetics: Transport and Rate Phenomena

by John C. Mauro

Overview

Materials Kinetics: Transport and Rate Phenomena provides readers with a clear understanding of how physical-chemical principles are applied to fundamental kinetic processes. The book integrates advanced concepts with foundational knowledge and cutting-edge computational approaches, demonstrating how diffusion, morphological evolution, viscosity, relaxation and other kinetic phenomena can be applied to practical materials design problems across all classes of materials. The book starts with an overview of thermodynamics, discussing equilibrium, entropy, and irreversible processes. Subsequent chapters focus on analytical and numerical solutions of the diffusion equation, covering Fick’s laws, multicomponent diffusion, numerical solutions, atomic models, and diffusion in crystals, polymers, glasses, and polycrystalline materials.

Dislocation and interfacial motion, kinetics of phase separation, viscosity, and advanced nucleation theories are examined next, followed by detailed analyses of glass transition and relaxation behavior. The book concludes with a series of chapters covering molecular dynamics, energy landscapes, broken ergodicity, chemical reaction kinetics, thermal and electrical conductivities, Monte Carlo simulation techniques, and master equations.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780128239070
Publisher:	Elsevier Science
Publication date:	11/26/2020
Pages:	542
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.12(d)

About the Author

Dr. John C. Mauro is Professor and Associate Head for Graduate Education in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at The Pennsylvania State University. John earned a BS in Glass Engineering Science (2001), BA in Computer Science (2001), and PhD in Glass Science (2006), all from Alfred University. He joined Corning Incorporated in 1999 and served in multiple roles there, including Senior Research Manager of the Glass Research department. John holds more than 50 granted US patents and is the inventor or co-inventor of several new glasses for Corning, including Corning Gorilla® Glass products. John joined the faculty at Penn State in 2017 and is currently a world-recognized leader in fundamental and applied glass science, materials kinetics, computational and condensed matter physics, thermodynamics, statistical mechanics, and the topology of disordered networks. He is the author of over 280 peer-reviewed publications, Editor of the Journal of the American Ceramic Society, winner of numerous international awards, and a Fellow of the American Ceramic Society and the Society of Glass Technology. John is also co-author of Fundamentals of Inorganic Glasses, 3rd ed., Elsevier (2019).

Table of Contents

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. Motion 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

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Covers physical-chemical principles and how they are applied to the fundamental processes that cover materials science, engineering, and all materials classes