Nonequilibrium Nondissipative Thermodynamics With Application to Low Pressure

Ji-Tao Wang: "Nonequilibrium Nondissipative Thermodynamics - With Application to Low-Pressure Diamond Synthesis"

Springer | English | April 29 2002 | ISBN: 354042802X | 272 pages | PDF | 21 MB

This book provides a framework for analysing complex systems for which classical thermodynamics is often not applicable. Since the success of the activated process in 1970, diamond growth with simultaneous graphite etching under low pressure has often been regarded as a violation of the second law of thermodynamics. A series of nonequilibrium phase diagrams, which agree excellently with the activated diamond experiments, have been calculated by the author and his coworkers on the basis of reaction coupling. The book goes on to demonstrate how these lead to a complete new systematization of modern thermodynamics.

Table of Contents:

1. Classical Thermodynamics.

2. Fundamentals of Modern Thermodynamics.

3. High Pressure Synthesis and Low Pressure Vapor Growth of Diamond Seeds.

4. Activated Low Pressure Diamond Growth from the Vapor Phase.

5. Reaction Coupling Model.

6. Nonequilibrium Phase Diagrams of C-H, C-O and Other Binary Systems.

7. Nonequilibrium Phase Diagrams of C-H-O and Other Ternary Systems.

8. Further Discussions About Some Debates.

9. Other Applications and Summary.

References.

Index.

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