Technologies to Characterize Nanostructured Particles and Bulk Materials

Bulk Behavior of Nanostructured Materials

Bulk nanostructured thermoelectric materials: current research and future prospects

Thermoelectrics have long been recognized as a potentially transformative energy conversion technology due to their ability to convert heat directly into electricity. Despite this potential, thermoelectric devices are not in common use because of their low efficiency, and today they are only used in niche markets where reliability and simplicity are more important than performance. However, the...

The Impact of Bulk Nanostructured Materials in Modern Research

An analysis was conducted to evaluate the impact of the broad field of severe plastic deformation, ultrafine-grained materials and nanostructured materials on modern Materials Science. Although this research area was first introduced only two decades ago, citation data are used for major journals in Materials Science to demonstrate that the field has had a remarkable impact. Specifically, the a...

Nanostructured Materials, and Nanodevices

The first bulk nanostructured metal

Nanotechnology has become an overused adjective, but there has been justified excitement in the context of structural materials. A class of iron alloys has been discovered in which a high density of strong interfaces can be created by heat-treatment alone. The packing of interfaces is so large, and the fact that there is an intrinsic work hardening mechanism in the structure, leads to remarkabl...