By Gerald H. Meier

An available but rigorous dialogue of the thermodynamics of surfaces and interfaces, bridging the space among textbooks and complex literature by way of offering a entire advisor with out an overpowering volume of arithmetic. The e-book starts off with a evaluate of the suitable points of the thermodynamics of bulk structures, by means of an outline of the thermodynamic variables for surfaces and interfaces. very important floor phenomena are special, together with wetting, crystalline structures (including grain boundaries), interfaces among various levels, curved interfaces (capillarity), adsorption phenomena and adhesion of floor layers. The later chapters additionally function case stories to demonstrate real-world functions. each one bankruptcy encompasses a set of research difficulties to enhance the reader's figuring out of significant ideas. excellent as an auxiliary textual content for college students and a self-study advisor for practitioners and educational researchers operating throughout a huge variety of materials.

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