Preface: Focus on complex metallic phases

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...

Foreword: Focus on complex metallic phases

I am glad to learn that a focus issue, Complex Metallic Phases, will be published in Science and Technology of Advanced Materials (STAM). The articles in this special issue contain original and review papers on fundamentals and applications contributed by experts in the field. The topics cover various approaches to practical applications including catalysts, photonics, high specific strength ma...

Preface to the Focus Section

This focus section explores the opportunities of design anthropology in participatory design as an approach to research and design in an increasingly global and digital world. Traditionally, ethnography has been used in Participatory design to research real-life contexts and challenges, and as ways to involve people in defining user-needs and design opportunities. As the boundaries between dive...

Preface to the Focus Section

Preface: A focus on new treatments for blinding ocular diseases.

This publication presents results from a workshop held June 11 to 13, 2011, in Rancho Valencia, California, entitled “An Eye on Glaucoma: New Opportunities for Treatment.” The purpose of the workshop was to gather a small group of experts in the glaucoma field and, in an informal setting, pinpoint the key needs and opportunities for preventing, treating, and ultimately curing glaucoma. For the ...