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Among the structural phase transitions that evolve from an initially crystalline state, melting is the most common and most extensively studied. Another transformation that produces a disordered final state is solid-state amorphization. In this section the underlying thermodynamic and kinetic features of these two phenomena in a bulk lattice and at surfaces and grain boundaries will be discussed [1]. By focusing on the insights derived from molecular-dynamics simulations, we are led quite naturally to a view of structural disordering that unifies the crystal-to-liquid (C-L) and crystal-to-amorphous (C-A) transitions at high and low temperatures, respectively.
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Yip, S., Phillpot, S.R., Wolf, D. (2005). Crystal Disordering in Melting and Amorphization. In: Yip, S. (eds) Handbook of Materials Modeling. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-3286-8_104
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