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Materials Kinetics: Transport and Rate Phenomena
Materials 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.
542 pages, Paperback
First published November 22, 2020
About the author
John C. Mauro
6 books789 followersJohn lives in a world of glass amongst the hills of central Pennsylvania. When not indulging in his passion for literature or enjoying time with family, John is training the next generation of materials scientists at Penn State University, where he teaches glass science and materials kinetics. John loves cooking international cuisine and kayaking the beautiful Finger Lakes region of upstate New York. John has published two textbooks and is a writer for Grimdark Magazine and Before We Go Blog.
My all-time favorite authors: Mark Lawrence, Anna Smith Spark, Gemma Amor, Fonda Lee, David Mitchell, Kazuo Ishiguro, Haruki Murakami, Emile Zola, Fyodor Dostoevsky
My all-time favorite authors: Mark Lawrence, Anna Smith Spark, Gemma Amor, Fonda Lee, David Mitchell, Kazuo Ishiguro, Haruki Murakami, Emile Zola, Fyodor Dostoevsky
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May 28, 2023
Special thanks to my dear friend, Dr. Jane Cook, whose art is depicted on the cover.
About the Cover Art:
“Moments in Love: Mean, Variance, Skew, Kurtosis, " by Jane Cook, Corning, New York (2018)
Acrylic and tissue paper on canvas, 61 cm × 45 cm
The title of this painted collage is a word-play on the title of the song “Moments in Love” by the 1980s new wave band Art of Noise. The canvas is painted red and overlaid with crinkled red tissue, over which four roughly rectangular forms are positioned essentially squared with each other and the canvas. The piece is the artist’s nerdy commentary on the utility and futility of analysis in matters of the heart. One might find joy amongst the scattered, undulating hills and valleys of the underlying “function” of love without knowing more details of that function; or, one can deploy a knowledge of statistics to extract the moments of the distribution of highs and lows. Neither method of experience is superior – they each provide unique insights.
About the Cover Art:
“Moments in Love: Mean, Variance, Skew, Kurtosis, " by Jane Cook, Corning, New York (2018)
Acrylic and tissue paper on canvas, 61 cm × 45 cm
The title of this painted collage is a word-play on the title of the song “Moments in Love” by the 1980s new wave band Art of Noise. The canvas is painted red and overlaid with crinkled red tissue, over which four roughly rectangular forms are positioned essentially squared with each other and the canvas. The piece is the artist’s nerdy commentary on the utility and futility of analysis in matters of the heart. One might find joy amongst the scattered, undulating hills and valleys of the underlying “function” of love without knowing more details of that function; or, one can deploy a knowledge of statistics to extract the moments of the distribution of highs and lows. Neither method of experience is superior – they each provide unique insights.
April 17, 2022
This book gave me valuable insight into kinetics which I have started to apply to my own research! While it does heavily focus on glasses (which makes sense considering the work Dr. Mauro has put into that key area), the concepts are still relevant to many areas of work. I even learned about some interesting answers to urban legends and abstract art!
5/5 would kinetics again.
5/5 would kinetics again.
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