The Atomistic Nature of Crystal Growth

Crystal growth and nucleation are treated in the specialized literature indifferent ways depending on the discipline in question physics physicalchemistry chemi... » 

Crystal growth and nucleation are treated in the specialized literature indifferent ways depending on the discipline in question physics physicalchemistry chemical engineering and on the theoretical approaches atomisticvs continuum approach as regards crystal growth phase vs chemical concept asregards nucleation. This book relates the different approaches to one anothergiving preference to atomistic treatments by the methods of statisticalthermodynamics and chemical kinetics. This unified approach also facilitates anunderstanding of some related phenomena of surface physics such as adsorptionwetting etc. The book allows research novices and graduate students to get aninsight into the physics of the phenomena and to interpret some of theexperimental results. «