TL;DR
This paper revisits the thermodynamical potential for dilute solutions, demonstrating that all solids inherently contain defects at any finite temperature, with some cases showing temperature-independent defect concentrations.
Contribution
It generalizes the thermodynamical potential for dilute solutions and applies it to prove the inevitability of defects in solids at finite temperatures.
Findings
All solids have defects at finite temperature.
There exist cases with temperature-independent defect concentrations.
The thermodynamical potential is extended and applied to defect analysis.
Abstract
The thermodynamical potential for dilute solutions is rederived, generalized and applied to defects in solids. It is shown that there are always defects in solids, i.e. there is no perfect solid at any finite temperature. Apart from the temperature- dependent concentration of defects, another case is presented, where the defect concentration does not depend on temperature.
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Taxonomy
TopicsThermoelastic and Magnetoelastic Phenomena · Numerical methods in inverse problems · Elasticity and Wave Propagation