本教材在原子和分子水平上概述了材料的物理基础及共性理论，将金属学、陶瓷学和高分子物理的基础理论融为一体，以研究材料共性规律，注重材料成分、组织结构、制备工艺和性能之间的内在联系，指导材料的设计和应用。全书分上、下两册。上册内容安排如下：原子结构与键合（第1章），固体结构（第2章），晶体缺陷（第3章），材料的形变与再结晶（第4章）。以及固体中原子和分子的运动（第5章）。
本书可以作为材料科学与工程学科的本科生教材，也可以作为研究生和从事材料科学研究与分析测试的工程技术人员的参考书。

Chapter 1 Atomic structure and interatomic bonding
1.1 Atomic structure
1.1.1 Substance construction
1.1.2 Structures of atoms
1.1.3 Electronic Structures of atoms
1.1.4 Natures of the elements in the periodic table
1.2 Interatomic bonding
1.2.1 Metallic bonding
1.2.2 Ionic bonding
1.2.3 Covalent bonding
1.2.4 Van der Waals bonding
1.2.5 Hydrogen bonding
1.3 Polymer chain structure
1.3.1 Short-range structure of the polymer chains
1.3.2 Long-range structure of polymer chains
Chapter 2 The structure of solids
2.1 Fundamentals of crystallography
2.1.1 Space lattice and unit cells
2.1.2 Miller indices for directions and planes
2.1.3 Stereographic projections
2.1.4 Crystal symmetry
2.2 Metallic crystal structures
2.2.1 Three typical metallic crystal structures
2.2.2 Close-packed crystal structures and interstitial sites
2.2.3 Polymorphism and aUotropy
2.3 Phase structures of alloys
2.3.1 Solid solution
2.3.2 Intermediate phases
2.4 Ionic crystal structure
2.4.1 Structural rules of ionic crystals
2.4.2 Typical ionic crystal structures
2.4.3 Crystal structure of silicate
2.5 Covalent crystal structure
2.6 Crystal structures of the polymers
2.7 Quasicrysta[ structure
2.8 Liquid crystalline structure
2.8.1 Molecular structure and classification of liquid crystals
2.8.2 Structure of liquid crystal
2.9 Amorphous structure
Chapter 3 Crystal defects
3.1 Point defects
3.1.1 The formation of point defects
3.1.2 Equilibrium concentration of point defects
3.1.3 Movement of point defects
3.2 Dislocations
3.2.1 Basic types and characteristics of dislocations
3.2.2 Burgers vector
3.2.3 The movement of dislocation
3.2.4 Elastic properties of dislocations
3.2.5 Generation and multiplication of dislocations
3.2.6 Dislocations in real crystals
3.3 Surface and interface
3.3.1 Surfaces
3.3.2 Grain boundaries and subgrain boundaries
3.3.3 Twin boundaries
Chapter 4 Deformation and recrystallization
4.1 Elasticity and viscoelasticity
4.1.1 Nature of elastic deformation
4.1.2 Elastic deformation characteristics and elastic modulus
4.1.3 Imperfect elasticity
4.1.4 Viscoelasticity
4.2 Plastic deformation of crystals
4.2.1 Plastic deformation of single crystals
4.2.2 Plastic deformation of polycrystals
4.2.3 Plastic deformation of alloys
4.2.4 Effect of plastic deformation on microstructures and properties
4.3 Recovery and recrystallization
4.3.1 Changes in the microstructures and properties of the cold-deformed metals during annealing
4.3.2 Recovery
4.3.3 Recrysta[[ization
4.3.4 Grain growth
4.3.5 Microstructure after recrystaUization
4.4 Dynamic recovery and recrystallization during hot working
4.4.1 Dynamic recovery and dynamic recrystaUization
4.4.2 Effect of hot forming on microstructures and properties
4.4.3 Creep
4.4.4 Superplasticity
4.5 Deformation characteristics of ceramics
4.6 Deformation characteristics of polymers
Chapter 5 Diffusion in so|ids
5.1 Phenomenoiogica[ theory
5.1.1 Fick's first law
5.1.2 Fick's second law
5.1.3 Solutions to diffusion equations
5.1.4 Diffusion in substitutional solid solutions
5.1.5 Solution to diffusion equations when diffusion coefficient is a function of concentration
5.2 Thermodynamic analysis of diffusion
5.3 Atomic theory of diffusion
5.3.1 Diffusion mechanisms
5.3.2 Atomic jump and diffusion coefficient
5.4 The activation energy of diffusion
5.5 Random walk and diffusion length
5.6 Factors that affect diffusion
5.7 Reaction diffusion
5.8 Diffusion in ionic solids
5.9 Molecular motion in polymers
5.9.1 The origin of mo