1. Course desc<x>ription: The purpose of this course is to provide students 
<br>fundamental knowledge of essential kinetics of various material systems. The 
<br>subjects covered are (1) Diffusion; (2) Chemical reactions; (3) Phase 
<br>transformations.
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<br>2. Reference Book:
<br>(1) R. W. Balluffi, "Kinetics of Materials", Wiley 2005
<br>(2) O. Levenspiel, “Chemical Reaction Engineering”, 3rd Ed., John Wiley & Sons, 
<br>1999.
<br>(3) D. A. Porter,“Phase Transformations in me<x>tals and alloys”, 2nd Ed., 
<br>Chapman & Hall, 1992.
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<br>3. Teaching methods:
<br>   Lecture
<br>   Prerequisite courses: Engineering Mathematics, Thermodynamics, Physical 
<br>me<x>tallurgy 
<br>   Grade: Quiz (30%), Midterm (35%), Final (35%)
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<br>4. Outlines:
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<br>Lecture 1	Introduction
<br>Thermodynamics vs. Kinetics; steady flow process; irreversible thermodynamics; 
<br>entropy production & driving force 
<br>Lecture 2	Driving forces for mass transport
<br>Chemical potential gradient; electric field; temperature gradient ; Surface 
<br>potential 
<br>gradient; Stress gradient
<br>Lecture 3	Diffusion equations and solutions
<br>Steady and non-steady solutions; Boltzmann-Matano analysis
<br>Lecture 4	Diffusion mechanism
<br>Thermally activated atomic jumping; atomic diffusion mechanism; diffusion in 
<br>ionic 
<br>solids 
<br>Lecture 5	Diffusion in crystal imperfections
<br>Grain boundary diffusion; Surface diffusion ; Dislocation diffusion
<br>Midterm Examination
<br>Lecture 6	Homogeneous chemical reactions
<br>Batch-type reaction; Rate equation & analysis methodology
<br>Lecture 7	Hetergeneous chemical reactions
<br>Fluid-solid; Fluid-Fluid; Fluid-Particle reactions
<br>Lecture 8	Coarsening & grain growth
<br>Lecture 9	Spinodal decomposition
<br>Lecture 10	Nucleation theory
<br>Lecture 11	Solidification
<br>Final Examination
<br>Lecture note download: http://www.mse.nthu.edu.tw/~cnliao/
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