Preface; Notation; Part I. Basic Thermodynamics and Kinetics of Phase Transformations: 2. Temperature-composition phase diagrams; 3. Diffusion; 4. Nucleation; 5. Effects of diffusion and nucleation on phase transformations; Part II. The Atomic Origins of Thermodynamics and Kinetics: 6. Energy; 7.

Entropy; 8. Pressure; 9. Interactions in microstructures and constrained equilibrium; 10. Atom movements with the vacancy mechanism; Part III. Types of Phase Transformations: 11. Thermodynamics and phase transitions at surfaces; 12. Melting; 13. Solidification; 14.

Phase transformations with interfaces: 1. Microstructure; 15. Phase transformations with interfaces: 2. Energetics and kinetics; 16. Spinodal decomposition; 17. Phase field theory; 18. Method of concentration waves and chemical ordering; 19. Diffusionless transformations; 20.

Thermodynamics of nanomaterials; 21. Magnetic and electronic phase transitions; Further reading; References; Index. Online Chapters - Advanced Topics: 22. Low-temperature analysis of phase boundaries; 23. Statistical kinetics of ordering transformations; 24. Elastic energy of solid precipitates; 25. Diffusion, dissipation, and inelastic scattering; 26. Vibrational thermodynamics of materials at high temperatures; 27.

Cooperative behavior near a critical temperature; 28. Phase transitions in quantum materials.