Gibbs-Thomson effects in phase transformations

During phase transformations, like precipitation or solidification, processes such as nucleation, growth and coarsening depend strongly on interfacial effects, named Gibbs-Thomson effects. Based, on simple thermodynamics considerations, a formulation of the Gibbs-Thomson equation is proposed and different approximation solutions of this equation found in the literature are discussed. (C) 2004 Acta Materialia Inc. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.