| The characteristics and theory of the thermal conductivity of solids was reviewed comprehensively in Volume 7 of this serial publication by Klemens. In a later article, appearing in Volume 12, Mendelssohn and Rosenberg surveyed the theory of and experience with low-temperature thermal conductivity of metals. The review by Slack in this volume updates the developments of the knowledge and understanding of the intrinsic thermal conductivity of pure nonmetallic solids and liquids at relatively high temperatures. Extensive comparisons of the more recent experimental results with theory are presented.
The second article in this volume, by d e Fontaine, presents a comprehensive and thorough development of the theory for the atomic configurations of solid solutions. Applications of the theory to interpretations of the thermodynamics and kinetics of compositional ordering or clustering in alloys are shown. In the final article of this volume Schnatterly describes the technique of and underlying theory for inelastic electron scattering spectroscopy and surveys some of its recent applications. |
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