Thermodynamic Metastability
10 Jan 2025
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Defining metastability with examples in various materials like diamond, chocolate, and titanium oxid...
Generalized Phase Diagram
10 Jan 2025
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How to construct these diagrams using both intensive and extensive variable
Clausius-Clapeyron Relation
10 Jan 2025
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How the Clausius-Clapeyron equation describes the slope of coexistence lines
Legendre Transformation
10 Jan 2025
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How to define thermodynamic systems and boundary conditions using either intensive or extensive vari...
Geometry of Equilibrium Thermodynamics
10 Jan 2025
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How entropy maximization leads to equilibrium
Second Law of Thermodynamics
10 Jan 2025
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At equilibrium in a closed system, entropy is maximized by redistributing extensive quantities to eq...
Conceptions of Entropy
10 Jan 2025
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The historical development of the concept of entropy
Thermodynamic Work in Materials Science
18 Dec 2024
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Different forms of work done on materials
The Energy of Materials
18 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The concept of energy in materials from a thermodynamics perspective