Table of Contents: “... and enthalpy -- Ideal gas, expansion and compression -- Chemical energy -- Entropy -- Characteristic functions -- Gibbs energy and equilibrium -- Tables -- Pure Substances -- Chemical reactions -- level 2: Mixtures and partial quantities -- The open system, chemical...”

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Table of Contents: “... Epitaxy -- Stress-Induced Surface Modulation -- Entropy Effects in the Self-Organized Formation of Nanostructures -- Dislocation-Free 3D Islands in Highly Mismatched Epitaxy: An Equilibrium Study with Anharmonic Interactions -- Self-Assembly of Few-Atom...”

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Table of Contents: “...-Range Order: Implications of the “Rigid Unit Mode” Picture -- Vibrational Entropy and Local Structures of Solids -- Diffuse Scattering by Domain Structures -- Recent “Local” Structural Studies: Metallic Alloys, Superconductors and Proteins -- Studies of Local...”

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Table of Contents: “...1. Entropy and Principles -- 1.1 Preamble -- 1.2 Internal Energy and First Principle -- 1.3 Tensions and Extensities -- 1.4 Entropy and Second Principle -- 1.5 Entropy and Thermal Energy -- 2. Energies and Evolution Criteria -- 2.1 Internal Energy...”

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Table of Contents: “... Stability and Transformation -- Iron phase diagram and high pressures and temperatures -- Effects of continuous atomic displacement on the phase stability of metallic alloys -- Maximization of cluster entropies via an irreversible algorithm: Application...”

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Table of Contents: “...and Definitions -- Differentiation, Integration, and Special Functions -- The First Law of Thermodynamics -- The Second Law of Thermodynamics -- Entropy and Related Functions -- Helmholtz and Gibbs Energies -- The Third Law of Thermodynamics -- Phase...”

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Table of Contents: “... -- The Behaviour of Proteins under Pressure -- Pressure Dissociation of the Smaller Oligomers: Dimers and Tetramers -- Relations of Bond Energies and Entropy with Volume Pressure and Temperature in Protein Aggregates -- High Pressure Vibrational Spectroscopic Studies...”

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Table of Contents: “... Statistics -- Distribution Laws -- Entropy and Related Properties -- Fermions, Bosons, and Boltzons -- Gibbsian Ensembles -- Vibrations of Atoms in Lattices -- Potential Energy Functions -- References -- 4 Theories of Solutions -- Regular Solutions—Zeroth...”

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Table of Contents: “...1. Introduction -- 2. Thermodynamics -- 2.1 Systems -- 2.2 State Variables -- 2.3 Equations of State -- 2.4 First Law of Thermodynamics -- 2.5 Second Law of Thermodynamics -- 2.6 Thermal Efficiency -- 2.7 Reversibility and Entropy -- 2.8 Chemical...”

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