Chemistry, Thermodynamics, and Phase Equilibria

The goal of this textbook is to illustrate how chemistry, thermodynamics, and phase equilibria can be integrated and used as tools for increasing our understanding of each individual discipline as well as the chemistry of high temperature materials systems. General chemical principles that are typically taught in classrooms fail to address the unique behavior seen at high temperatures. Additionally, materials systems seen to be stable at moderate temperatures can catastrophically interact at higher temperatures and the synthesis of certain materials can only be accomplished through high temperature processes. Therefore, scientists and engineers who go on to work in that area are not adequately equipped to handle these issues. This textbook is organized into two multi-chapter parts. The first part of the book rigorously covers the basic core sciences of chemistry, thermodynamics, and phase equilibria. The powerful integrative use of these core sciences is evident when explaining fundamental scientific concepts of each topic as well as when applying these sciences as tools in solving example problems. The second partof the book applies the core sciences covered in the first part. The second part then focuses on groupings of chemical reaction types. The final section of the book discusses chemically complex systems, and methods of creating databases and the modeling the chemical behavior of such systems.