Interfacial Aspects of Phase Transformations: Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute held at Erice, Silicy, August 29–September 9, 1981

Front Matter....Pages i-x
The Structure of Clean Surfaces....Pages 1-32
Electronic Structure and Cohesion....Pages 33-61
Surface Thermodynamics....Pages 63-102
Physisorption and Chemisorption....Pages 103-118
Critical Phenomena in Two Dimensions: Theoretical Models and Physical Realizations....Pages 119-141
Crystal-Melt, Crystal-Amorphous and Liquid-Vapor Interfaces....Pages 143-182
The Intermolecular Nature of Liquid Water - The Hydration of Molecules and Ions....Pages 183-198
On the Structure of Grain Boundaries in Metals....Pages 199-222
Kinetics of Elementary Processes at Surfaces....Pages 223-260
Three Dimensional Nucleation....Pages 261-286
Three and Two Dimensional Nucleation on Substrates....Pages 287-302
Coalescence of Nuclei on Substrates....Pages 303-314
Crystal Growth Kinetics....Pages 315-364
Physisorption: Structures and Interactions....Pages 365-409
Chemisorption of Metals on Metals and on Semiconductors....Pages 411-431
Chemisorption on Single Crystal and Heterogeneous Catalysis....Pages 433-451
Growth by Vacuum Evaporation, Sputtering, Molecular Beam Epitaxy and Chemical Vapor Deposition....Pages 453-488
Melt Growth....Pages 489-508
Crystal Growth in Aqueous Solutions....Pages 509-520
Crystals and Crystallization in Biological Systems....Pages 521-529
Crystal Growth from Non Aqueous Solutions....Pages 531-557
Electrocrystallization....Pages 559-604
Recrystallization....Pages 605-619
Impurity Effects in Crystal Growth from Solution....Pages 621-638
Dissolution Phenomena....Pages 639-650
Crystallographic Applications of Holographic Interferometry....Pages 651-667
Studies of Surface Morphology on an Atomic Scale....Pages 669-696
Back Matter....Pages 697-708