Nanostructured Metallic Materials: Preface

Preface: bone graft materials.

Bone grafting is the second most commonly performed procedure next to blood transfusion. Every year, 500,000 bone graft procedures are performed in the Unites States alone and 2.2 million procedures are performed worldwide. Th e approximate cost of these procedures is US$2.5 billion. Autograft is still considered the gold standard for bone grafting. Allografts and xenografts are commonly used. ...

Functional Nanostructured Molecular Materials

The Electrochemical Society Interface • Fall 2001 here has been tremendous recent interest in the design and assembly of porous nanostructured materials.1 Synthetic approaches range from coordination-polymer formation to surfactant-templated alumino-silicate growth to semiconductor nanoparticle aggregation, while functions include chemical catalysis, chemical sensing, energy storage, and energy...

Preface: Focus on complex metallic phases

1 Institute of Multidisciplinary Research for Advanced Materials, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8577, Japan Max-Planck-Institut for Chemical Physics of Solids, 01187 Dresden, Germany 3 Sciences de l’Ingéniérie, des Matériaux et des Procédés, Grenoble INP, CNRS, 28402 cedex, France E-mail: [email protected]. ac.jp The discovery of quasicrystal in 1982 has facilitated a revolution in crystallog...

Nanostructured Materials, and Nanodevices

Ultra-strong and damage tolerant metallic bulk materials: A lesson from nanostructured pearlitic steel wires

Structural materials used for safety critical applications require high strength and simultaneously high resistance against crack growth, referred to as damage tolerance. However, the two properties typically exclude each other and research efforts towards ever stronger materials are hampered by drastic loss of fracture resistance. Therefore, future development of novel ultra-strong bulk materi...