Dissemination of IT for the Promotion of Materials Science (DoITPoMS)

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Readers should be familiar with the concept of a crystal lattice, dislocations, and diffusion. A familiarity with the basics of mechanical behaviour and corrosion of materials would also be useful.
Readers should be familiar with standard nuclear terminology:  the definitions of isotope and nuclide, the composition of nuclei, the definitions of atomic number and mass number.

A note on units:  throughout this TLP the unit used for energy is the electron volt , the energy associated with one electronic charge (1.619 × 10−19 C) subjected to a potential difference of 1 V, i.e. 1 eV ≈ 1.619 × 10−19 J