Eggeling, EvaEvaEggelingBarmak, KatayunKatayunBarmakEmelianenko, MariaMariaEmelianenkoEpshteyn, YekaterinaYekaterinaEpshteynKinderlehrer, DavidDavidKinderlehrerTa'asan, ShlomoShlomoTa'asan2022-03-042022-03-042009https://publica.fraunhofer.de/handle/publica/220330Cellular networks are ubiquitous in nature. They exhibit behavior on many different length and time scales and are generally metastable. Most technologically useful materials are polycrystalline microstructures composed of a myriad of small monocrystalline grains separated by grain boundaries. The energetics and connectivity of the grain boundary network plays a crucial role in determining the properties of a material across a wide range of scales. A central problem in materials science is to develop technologies capable of producing an arrangement of grains - a texture - that provides for a desired set of material properties. Here we discuss briefly the role of energy in texture development, measured by a character distribution, and how this is different from the evolution of geometric features, which we term geometric coarsening. For this purpose we present a critical event model to deepen our understanding of the topological reconfigurations that occur during the growth process.enmaterial researchtexturegrowth processtopology006journal article