Stress effects on the kinetics of adsorption in a spherical particle: an analytical model

Abstract

We consider a two-phase elastic solid subject to diffusion-induced phase transformation by an interstitial species provided by a reservoir. We derive a simple analytical model to quantify the effect of misfit strain on the kinetic of phase transformation and to calculate the amplitude of the well-know hysteresis cycle observed when a sequence of forward and reverse phase transformations takes place.