Growth and Coarsening: Ostwald Ripening in Material Processing

by Lorenz Ratke and Peter W. Voorhees

Book Overview

100 years after the first observation of ripening by Ostwald and 40 years after the first publication of a theory describing this process, this monograph presents, in a self-consistent and comprehensive manner, all the bits and pieces of coarsening theories so that the main issues and the underlying mathematics of self-similar coarsening of dispersed systems can be understood. It contains all of the background material necessary to understand growth...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3540425632
• ISBN13: 9783540425632
• Release Date: December 2001
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 298 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"