text: Development of theoretical models describing grain growth is an active field of research. Many models have been proposed for grain growth, but no theory has yet been put forth that has been independently validated to apply across the full range of conditions and many questions remain open. By no means is the following a comprehensive review. One recent theory of grain growth posits that normal grain growth only occurs in the polycrystalline systems with grain boundaries which have undergone roughening transitions, and abnormal and/or stagnant grain growth can only occur in the polycrystalline systems with non-zero GB (grain boundary) step free energy of grains.  Other models explaining grain coarsening assert that disconnections are responsible for the motion of grain boundaries, and provide limited experimental evidence suggesting that they govern grain boundary migration and grain growth behavior. Other models have indicated that triple junctions play an important role in determining the grain growth behavior in many systems.