Materials Kinetics

Transport and Rate Phenomena

John C. Mauro

• Publisher: Elsevier
• Year: 2026
• Edition: 2
• eBook ISBN:
  9780443301759
• Topic: Technology & Engineering
• Subtopic: Materials Science
• Index: Technology & Engineering

Materials Kinetics: Transport and Rate Phenomena, Second Edition 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. Thermodynamics, Fick's law, dislocation and interfacial motion, kinetics of phase separation, molecular dynamics, energy landscapes, and Monte Carlo simulation techniques are each covered. This second edition also features brand new chapters on sintering, topological constraint theory, ab initio molecular dynamics, thermal conduction, and electrical conduction. All preexisting chapters have been revised and updated to include new exercises, and topics covered have been expanded to include examples of multicomponent diffusion, particle jump frequency, diffusion along dislocations, modeling of grain boundary diffusion, applications of phase-field modeling, applications of diffuse interface theory, and much more. - Covers the full breadth of materials kinetics, including organic and inorganic materials, solids and liquids, theory and experiments, macroscopic and microscopic interpretations, and analytical and computational approaches - Updates existing chapters, incluidng new exercises and discussions of topics such as statistical mechanics, thermomagnetic and galvanomagnetic materials, the Kirkendall Effect, diffusion in cylinders and spheres, and more - Demonstrates how diffusion, viscosity microstructural evolution, relaxation, and other kinetic phenomena can be leveraged in the practical design of new materials

Table of contents

• Title of Book
• Chapter 1 Thermodynamics versus kinetics
• Chapter 2 Irreversible thermodynamics
• Chapter 3 Fick’s laws of diffusion
• Chapter 4 Analytical solutions of the diffusion equation
• Chapter 5 Multicomponent diffusion
• Chapter 6 Numerical solutions of the diffusion equation
• Chapter 7 Atomic models for diffusion
• Chapter 8 Diffusion in crystals
• Chapter 9 Diffusion in polycrystalline materials
• Chapter 10 Motion of dislocations and interfaces
• Chapter 11 Morphological evolution in polycrystalline materials
• Chapter 12 Diffusion in polymers and glasses
• Chapter 13 Kinetics of phase separation
• Chapter 14 Nucleation and crystallization
• Chapter 15 Advanced nucleation theories
• Chapter 16 Viscosity of liquids
• Chapter 17 Nonequilibrium viscosity and the glass transition
• Chapter 18 Energy landscapes
• Chapter 19 Broken ergodicity
• Chapter 20 Master equations
• Chapter 21 Relaxation of glasses and polymers
• Chapter 22 Molecular dynamics
• Chapter 23 Monte Carlo techniques
• Chapter 24 Fluctuations in condensed matter
• Chapter 25 Chemical reaction kinetics
• Chapter 26 Thermal and electrical conductivities
• Index