Interfacial Aspects of Phase Transformations

Inhaltsverzeichnis

• 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.