Thermodynamics of Surfaces and Interfaces: Concepts in Inorganic Materials Gerald H. Meier
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Voids in Materials: From Unavoidable Defects to Designed Cellular Materials Gary M. Gladysz and Krishan K. Chawla Elsevier, 2014 214 pages, $175.00 ISBN 978-0-444-56367-5
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he properties of many naturally occurring and manufactured materials are defined by the extent to which they contain voids of various types, shapes, and sizes. The focus of this book is on voids in solid-state materials, including structural materials and biologically inspired hierarchical materials. The target audience is the materials scientist who is a non-expert on porous materials and is interested in an accessible, extended overview of the field. Unlike many other books on porous materials, which tend to focus on a particular materials class such as polymers where voids play an important role, the authors here introduce and define intentional versus unintentional voids across length scales in multiple classes
of materials, including metals, ceramics, polymers, and cellular materials. There is brief discussion of carbon nanotubes, but other nanoporous materials, such as inorganic nanotubes, zeolites, and metal– organic hybrids, are not discussed. The authors do a good job of highlighting the similarities among voids in these various types of materials and describing the ways in which voids impact their properties. Equations are given throughout, but, as the authors indicate in the preface, the emphasis is on a descriptive rather than a rigorous mathematical presentation. An extensive bibliography is provided so that the interested reader is able to follow up with the source material when greater depth is needed.
Thermodynamics of Surfaces and Interfaces: Concepts in Inorganic Materials Gerald H. Meier Cambridge University Press and the Materials Research Society 251 pages, $120.00 ISBN 9780521879088
In the interest of transparency, MRS is a co-publisher of this publication. However, this review was commissioned by an independent Book Review Board.
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his book’s author, Gerald H. Meier, is the William Kepler Whiteford Professor of Materials Science at the University of Pittsburgh, where he has taught for over 40 years. The book is touted “as an auxiliary text for students and a self-study guide for industry practitioners and academic researchers.” I fall
into the latter category; 25 years after taking my last thermodynamics class, I read the book with the goal of brushing up on the fundamentals of surface-related work. The book is true to its title and covers thermodynamics of materials surfaces with a focus on high-temperature, inorganic materials. Chapter 1 begins with basic bulk thermodynamics (e.g., the handling of multiphase equilibria and the Gibbs phase rule as applied to binary phase diagrams) and then expands to specific cases of surface phenomena. From MRS BULLETIN
Reviewer: Susan B. Sinnott of the University of Florida, USA.
there, surface quantities are introduced in chapter 2, and the concept of wetting, surfaces of crystalline solids, interphase interfaces, curved surfaces, adsorption, and adhesion are the topics of th
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