Gunter Gottstein & Lasar S. Shvindlerman 
Grain Boundary Migration in Metals [PDF ebook] 
Thermodynamics, Kinetics, Applications, Second Edition

A major goal of materials science is to create new engineering materials and optimize their cost and performance. Understanding how adjacent materials behave at their borders is an essential part of this process. Grain boundaries are the longest-known crystal defects, but although they were discovered in the mid-eighteenth century, until quite rece