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Phase Boundaries, Particles, and Pores

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In ceramic materials, as in other materials systems, interfaces are the most important region of the material because that’s where most of the action takes place. PBs are particularly important because they are the interfaces between dissimilar phases.

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  • The details of nucleation and growth theory are given in many standard text books on kinetics and phase transformations: see the books on interfaces in Chapter 15 and on phase transformations in Chapter 25.

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  • The details of nucleation and growth theory are given in many standard textbooks on kinetics and phase transformations: see the books on interfaces in Chapter 14 and on phase transformations in Chapter 25.

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Carter, C.B., Norton, M.G. (2013). Phase Boundaries, Particles, and Pores. In: Ceramic Materials. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-3523-5_15

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