%0 Journal Article %T Internal structures, phase field and balance laws in continuum mechanics %A Valeria Berti %A Mauro Fabrizio %J Atti della Accademia Peloritana dei Pericolanti : Classe di Scienze Fisiche, Matematiche e Naturali %D 2013 %I Accademia Peloritana dei Pericolanti %R 10.1478/aapp.91s1a2 %X A brief review of some models of phase transitions within the continuum mechanics is presented. A special study is directed to the phenomena of superconductivity, ferromagnetism, shape memory alloys and the behavior of a binary mixture using Cahn- Hilliard equation. %U http://dx.doi.org/10.1478/AAPP.91S1A2