Thermodynamics of grain boundary segregation and applications to anisotropy, compensation effect and prediction

Critical Reviews in Solid State and Materials Sciences

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 133-163

  Lejcek, Pavel ^a   Hofmann, Siegfried ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Czech Republic)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anisotropy; Compensation effect; Excess Gibbs energy; Grain boundaries; Prediction

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS; ANISOTROPY; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CRYSTAL GROWTH; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; ENTHALPY; FORECASTING; GRAIN (AGRICULTURAL PRODUCT); GRAIN BOUNDARIES; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; ISOTHERMS; MATERIALS PROPERTIES; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; SET THEORY; STANDARDS; TERMINOLOGY; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES; THERMODYNAMICS;

(PL) PROPERTIES; APPLIED (CO); AUGER ELECTRONS; COMPENSATION EFFECT (CE); EVALUATION SCHEMES; FUNDAMENTAL DIFFERENCES; GIBBS ENERGIES; GRAIN BOUNDARY SEGREGATION; INDIVIDUAL (PSS 544-7); INTERFACIAL SEGREGATION; PHYSICAL MEANINGS; QUANTITATIVE PREDICTION; SEGREGATION (BENEFICIATION); SEGREGATION ISOTHERMS; STATE FUNCTIONS; SYSTEMATIC (CO);

SEGREGATION (METALLOGRAPHY);

EID: 45849131321     PISSN: 10408436     EISSN: 15476561     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10408430801907649     Document Type: Article

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