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Grain boundaries separate the individual crystals composing a material and are omnipresent “defects” in most functional and structural materials. While they are known to strongly influence the ...

This course will cover a variety of topics associated with the thermodynamics and kinetics of phase transformations in materials. Topics to be covered include the various theories of nucleation, ...

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