Now through the end of March, the Journal of Phase Equilibria and Diffusion review article "The Legacy of "The Regular Solution Model for Stoichiometric Phases and Ionic Melts" by Bo Sundman, Nathalie Dupin, Marcel H. F. Sluiter, Suzana G. Fries, Christine Guéneau, Bengt Hallstedt, Ursula R. Kattner, and Malin Selleby is free access for you to download and read. In 1970, Hillert and Staffansson published a paper entitled "The Regular Solution Model for Stoichiometric Phases and Ionic Melts". It was the beginning of the sublattice model that has been a key component in the development of Computational Thermodynamics. This formalism, now often called the Compound Energy Formalism (CEF), has been used to describe a great variety of phases driven by the need for accurate descriptions of thermodynamic phase stability in a wide range of materials involving many elements. The purpose of this paper is to describe the formalism, the physical meaning of its various parameters and the way they can be assessed using experimental and theoretical data. Furthermore, new developments derived from the CEF, such as the Effective Bond Energy Formalism, and other ideas for further development are presented.
To read the article, please visit here now through March 31.
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