Interfacial Aspects of Phase Transformations: Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute held at Erice, Silicy, August 29 - September 9, 1981 / Edition 1

by B. Mutaftschiev

Overview

Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute, Erice, Sicily, Italy, August 29-September 9, 1981

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789027714404
Publisher:	Springer Netherlands
Publication date:	07/31/1982
Series:	Nato Science Series C: , #87
Edition description:	1982
Pages:	708
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.24(d)

Table of Contents

The Structure of Clean Surfaces.- Electronic Structure and Cohesion.- Surface Thermodynamics.- Physisorption and Chemisorption.- Critical Phenomena in Two Dimensions: Theoretical Models and Physical Realizations.- Crystal-Melt, Crystal-Amorphous and Liquid-Vapor Interfaces.- The Intermolecular Nature of Liquid Water - The Hydration of Molecules and Ions.- On the Structure of Grain Boundaries in Metals.- Kinetics of Elementary Processes at Surfaces.- Three Dimensional Nucleation.- Three and Two Dimensional Nucleation on Substrates.- Coalescence of Nuclei on Substrates.- Crystal Growth Kinetics.- Physisorption: Structures and Interactions.- Chemisorption of Metals on Metals and on Semiconductors.- Chemisorption on Single Crystal and Heterogeneous Catalysis.- Growth by Vacuum Evaporation, Sputtering, Molecular Beam Epitaxy and Chemical Vapor Deposition.- Melt Growth.- Crystal Growth in Aqueous Solutions.- Crystals and Crystallization in Biological Systems.- Crystal Growth from Non Aqueous Solutions.- Electrocrystallization.- Recrystallization.- Impurity Effects in Crystal Growth from Solution.- Dissolution Phenomena.- Crystallographic Applications of Holographic Interferometry.- Studies of Surface Morphology on an Atomic Scale.