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.
Covers the fundamentals of classical physics, emphasizing energy transformations in systems through gas laws, work, heat, and the laws of thermodynamics.
Explores the thermodynamics of polymer blends, phase diagrams, miscible blends, phase segregation, block copolymers, and applications in thermoplastic elastomers and nanotechnology.