Description: This book offers a contemporary overview of nanodiffusion, and details the present state of this rapidly growing field. New conceptions of basic aspects of the diffusion processes occurring at the nanoscale are treated, and many useful insights and results concerning diffusion kinetics in various types of technologically important nanomaterials are presented. The latter include: nanomagnetic materials, consisting of a mixture of magnetic nanoparticles in a residual amorphous magnetic matrix; thin films, bi-layers and multilayers for X-ray or neutron mirrors and for magneto-electronic applications such as GMR; and semiconductor nanosystems for many current and future applications.

Experimental Techniques and Design in Composite Materials 5

Edited by: P. Priolo

Online since: December 2001

Description: Volume is indexed by Thomson Reuters CPCI-S (WoS).
The present book represents a cooperative effort, by both experimentalists and designers, to seek out the best strategies for effecting improvements in the quality and the reliability of composite materials and to widen their application.

Interfaces and Plasticity

Edited by: Nicole Clément and Joël Douin

Online since: January 1998

Description: Dislocations were introduced into crystal physics, and particularly into the theory of plasticity, in 1934. For many years, they were the field of speculation of a small group of specialists, not considered seriously by real physicists and metallurgists. After W.T. Read Jr's fundamental work in 1953 and further developments by Cottrel, Friedel, Frank and Hirsch, dislocations had become part of the working vocabulary of solid-state physics and metallurgy.