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Explores thermodynamics, phase diagrams, Gibbs free energy, and their role in materials science.

Phase Equilibria: Understanding Vapor-Liquid Separation

Provides an overview of vapor-liquid phase diagrams and their role in separation processes, focusing on phase equilibria and the Gibbs phase rule.

Free-energy of solids: origins and consequences of the 1983 CECAM workshop

Explores the historical significance of the 1983 CECAM workshop on the free-energy of solids and its impact on developing free-energy methods for hard-core models.

Glass Transition: Polymer Properties

Explores glass and melting transitions in polymers, including characterization methods and specific polymer properties.

Chemical Thermodynamics: Fundamentals and Applications

Covers the basics of chemical thermodynamics, including enthalpy, phase changes, and calculation methods.

Thermodynamics: Energy Transformation

Covers energy transformation in thermodynamics, discussing laws, entropy, and spontaneity criteria for reactions.

Symmetry and Conservation in the Cell

Explores exceptions to thermodynamics, entropy, free energy, entropic springs, phase transitions, and polymer mixtures in cellular organization.

Chemical Potential and Thermodynamic Functions in Mixtures

Covers chemical potential variations and thermodynamic functions in mixtures, emphasizing their implications in real and ideal gases.

Physical Meaning of Potentials (conclusion)

Explores the equilibrium between subsystems, heat, work, and energy in thermodynamics.

Polymer Phase Behavior

Explores the physical chemistry of polymeric materials, emphasizing concentrated solutions and phase separation behavior.

Water Quality Modelling: Thermodynamics and Equilibrium

Covers thermodynamics, reaction types, equilibrium constants, and the density of water and seawater.

Thermodynamics: Fundamentals and Applications

Explores the basics of thermodynamics, including energy transformation, laws, and entropy.

Second Law of Thermodynamics

Explores the Second Law of Thermodynamics, Gibbs Free Energy, equilibrium constants, and Le Châtelier's Principle.

Maxwell's Relations: Thermodynamics

Covers Maxwell's relations in thermodynamics, including internal energy, free energy, enthalpy, and Gibbs free energy.

Chemical Reactions: Thermodynamics and Structures

Discusses the periodic table, enthalpy of reaction, and chemical equilibrium principles.

Thermodynamic Equilibria: Solution Models

Explores solution models for binary mixtures, including regular and real solutions, exchange energy, and thermodynamic quantities.

Chemical Equilibria and Reactivity

Delves into the second law of thermodynamics, chemical equilibrium, free enthalpy, activity in mixtures, and the Debye-Hückel equation.

Phase Separations in Polymer Solutions

Explores phase separations in polymer solutions, covering colloids, liquid crystals, miscibility, phase diagrams, and nucleation mechanisms.

Thermodynamic Modeling: Real Solutions

Explores thermodynamic modeling of real solutions in materials science, focusing on regular and sublattice models.

Thermodynamics: Real Gases and Phase Transitions

Discusses the thermodynamic behavior of real gases and phase transitions, including the Joule-Thomson effect and latent heat values.