Defects and diffusion in solids: an introduction by S. Mrowec

Abstract

Professor Stanislaw Mrowec, Ph.D., Dr. Sci., Member of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Director of the Institute of Materials Science at the Academy of Mining and Metallurgy, Krakow, Poland, has been active since 1956 in the field of high temperature oxidation of metals and alloys, as well as of defects and transport phenomena in solids. He has developed the well known theory of dissociative growth of scales on metals and alloys, as well as several methods for studying the structure and mobility of defects in oxides and sulphides. He is the author of over 150 scientific papers published mainly in such international journals, as Oxidation of Metals, Corrosion Science, Physica Status Solidi, etc. He is the Member of Editorial Boards of four international journals. The present book deals with one of the main topics mentioned above, concerning defects and diffusion in solids. Among other publications on this subject the present monograph seems to deserve the Reader's attention as it contains a large experimental material on self- and hetero-diffusion in metals and alloys, as well as in oxides, sulphides and halides of metals. Several empirical relations included enable also to calculate or estimate the needed transport parameters in the cases of lack of appropriate experimental data. Finally, owing to the simple description of the elements of the theory of defects and diffusion in solids, this book should belong to publications well accepted by solid state scientists.