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Phase Diagram Compilations

Search periodic table for Phase Diagram information

MSI Eureka has compiled a comprehensive overview of the past publications and phase diagrams and it continues to monitor current and future publications.

The phase diagram compilations: Links to Literature, Reference Diagrams and Research Results are accessed via the periodic table of the interface & viewing software Eureka Viewer.


Links to Literature

Links to Phase Diagram Literature results
Phase Diagram Literature citation Bibliography

Now covering over 45,000 systems with more than 240,000 bibliographic citations, making the link between a material system and all the publications where data are reported, for each individual system! MSIT continually reads & analyses the world literature and selects all publications with information relevant to materials constitution or related properties, for all inorganic systems (except salts):

  • unaries
  • binaries
  • ternaries
  • quaternaries
  • higher order component systems


The bibliographic data base "Links to Literature" cover practically all relevant publications from pre-1900 up to the present, providing a valuable and constantly growing information source. Element combinations not listed within the category "Links to Literature" most likely have never been studied.

Description of a bibliographic citation is shown below:

Description of a bibliographic citation


Reference Diagrams

Phase Diagrams as Published Results
Reference Phase Diagram: Carbon-Titanium (C-Ti) binary system
Reference Phase Diagram: Boron-Nickel-Silicon (B-Ni-Si) ternary system

Reference Diagrams are binary and ternary phase diagrams as published in the literature. They are collected from literature, uniformly edited by MSI but not critically evaluated by MSIT.

Currently the entire category "Reference Diagrams" is available free of charge (1272 binary and ternary systems, as of April 2009).

Content TypesInteractive Features
  • Phase diagram(s)
  • Crystal data tables
  • Reference
  • Zoom
  • Mass% atom% conversion
  • On screen concentration/ temperature reading
  • Links between the content types
  • Link to Current Work Alert


Research Results

Phase Diagram Research Results
Phase Diagram Research Results: Boron-Iron-Neodymium (B-Fe-Nd) ternary system

Documents in the category "Research Results" are extended extracts from the literature or original short publications made by individual authors - all sorted after materials systems.

Each document under "Research Results" reports data on one materials system only. Therefore one journal article may have generated several entries under Research Results, one for each element combination reported in the paper.

All information is presented as published, i.e. not assessed in the light of other data known, contrary to the binary and ternary MSIT Evaluation Reports.

Content TypesInteractive Features
  • Extended text summaries
  • Tables functions of relevant data
  • Diagrams
  • Reference to prime source
  • Information translated into English from the original language
  • Zoom
  • Links between content types
  • Link to Current Work Aler