Explores mass transfer, Fick's laws, Nernst-Einstein equation, and transport forces in various desorption and absorption examples.
Explores heterodiffusion, including electrolyte diffusion in liquids and solids, autodiffusion, and factors influencing diffusion rates.
Introduces ceramics and explores powder characterisation, ceramic manufacturing processes, shaping techniques, forces in powder suspensions, sintering fundamentals, and finishing.
Explores the design of high-performance alloys, the materials development process, multi-component systems, ICME, CALPHAD approach, and experimental phase diagram investigation.
Explores surface energy in thermodynamics, discussing Gibbs free energy, surface tension, nucleation theories, precipitation models, and Brownian motion.
