ReviewChemical reviews2023
Melting Is Well-Known, but Is It Also Well-Understood?
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9 citing papers in PubMed.
- Melting Temperature Under Pressure in 'Hard' and Soft Matter.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026Article
- Analysis of Melting Phenomena of the Alkali Halides: What Causes the Low Melting Points of the Lithium Halides?Journal of mass spectrometry : JMS · 2026Article
- Size and shape dependent cohesive energy and melting temperature in semiconducting nanomaterials.Discover nano · 2026Article
- Modeling the melting temperature of metallic nanocrystals: dependencies on size, dimensionality, and composition.RSC advances · 2025Article
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- Robust super-structured porous hydrogel enables bioadaptive repair of dynamic soft tissue.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Preliminary Broadband Dielectric Spectroscopy Insight into Compressed Orientationally Disordered Crystal-Forming Neopentyl Glycol (NPG).Materials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Ising Paradigm in Isobaric Ensembles.Entropy (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Atomistic-Continuum Study of an Ultrafast Melting Process Controlled by a Femtosecond Laser-Pulse Train.Materials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
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Abstract
Contrary to continuous phase transitions, where renormalization group theory provides a general framework, for discontinuous phase transitions such a framework seems to be absent. Although the thermodynamics of the latter type of transitions is well-known and requires input from two phases, for melting a variety of one-phase theories and models based on solids has been proposed, as a generally accepted theory for liquids is (yet) missing. Each theory or model deals with a specific mechanism using typically one of the various defects (vacancies, interstitials, dislocations, interstitialcies) present in solids. Furthermore, recognizing that surfaces are often present, one distinguishes between mechanical or bulk melting and thermodynamic or surface-mediated melting. After providing the necessary preliminaries, we discuss both types of melting in relation to the various defects. Thereafter we deal with the effect of pressure on the melting process, followed by a discussion along the line of type of materials. Subsequently, some other aspects and approaches are dealt with. An attempt to put melting in perspective concludes this review.
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