Melting theory

Shaw, D.M., 2000. Continuous (dynamic) melting theory revisited. Canadian Mineralogist, 38 1041-1063. 

Fischer SG, Lerman LS (1983) DNA fragments differing by single base-pair substitutions are separated in denaturing gels correspondence with melting theory. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 80 1579-1584... 

Melamine-formaldehyde polymers, 1017 Melting theory, of, 21 under the solvent, 35 Melting point, 21... 

The KTHNY theory is a specific example of a defect-mediated melting theory, of which there are numerous other examples. In Section II.E we discuss some of the other 2D defect-mediated melting theories, including computer simulations of systems of interacting defects. 

The various defect-mediated melting theories that have been proposed differ primarily in the type of defects that are assumed to be important in... 

The earliest vacancy-mediated melting theories were essentially instability theories, which predicted the temperature at which the free energy of formation of vacancies becomes negative (an example of such arguments can be found in the section on KTHNY theory above). More recent theories (such as O Reilly s) view melting as a vacancy condensation transition. Vacancy-mediated melting theories have never enjoyed wide acceptance because the concept of a vacancy is ill-defined in the liquid phase, and because such theories seem to be inapplicable to substances that contract upon melting. 

Dislocation-mediated melting theories are by far the most popular of the defect-based melting theories, with a correspondingly large literature. The literature on dislocation-mediated melting in 3D up to about 1980 has been reviewed by Cotterill [9,10]. More recently, Edwards and Warner [100] used techniques from polymer physics to treat the statistics of an ensemble of dislocation loops, and found that the interactions between dislocations are screened by a finite density of dislocations,... 

Grain boundary-mediated melting theories date back to the work of Mott and Gurney [107,108], who envisioned the liquid as a very fine grained... 

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