1.3 Thermodynamics versus Kinetics

As studied by several French groups especially (A. Thomy and X. Duval, Surface Sci. Reports 1 (1981) 1), these volumetric studies, using high quality exfoliated graphite, established the existence of 2D solid, liquid and gaseous layers, and the position of the corresponding phase transitions and such fixed points as triple points and critical ... ................
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