Nanostructured Materials: Processing, Properties and Applications - Hardcover

Nanostructured materials are one of the highest profile classes of materials in science and engineering today, and will continue to be well into the future. Potential applications are widely varied, including washing machine sensors, drug delivery devices to combat avian flu, and more efficient solar panels. Broad and multidisciplinary, the field includes multilayer films, atomic clusters, nanocrystalline materials, and nanocomposites having remarkable variations in fundamental electrical, optic, and magnetic properties.

Nanostructured Materials: Processing, Properties and Applications, 2nd Edition is an extensive update to the exceptional first edition snapshot of this rapidly advancing field. Retaining the organization of the first edition, Part 1 covers the important synthesis and processing methods for the production of nanocrystalline materials. Part 2 focuses on selected properties of nanostructured materials. Potential or existing applications are described as appropriate throughout the book. The second edition has been updated throughout for the latest advances and includes two additional chapters.

Chapter 1 now discusses the cytotoxicity of nanoparticles.

Chapter 2 is a new addition, covering synthesis of nanostructured materials by inert-gas condensation methods.

Chapter 6 presents recent breakthroughs in the mechanical and magnetic properties of electrodeposited nanocrystalline materials.

Chapter 7 describes various modeling techniques including molecular dynamics and Monte Carlo methods.

Chapter 9 presents important advances in nanostructured materials for gas reactive applications. Of special interest in the sensitivity to nanocrystalline structure.

Chapter 10 is a new addition, covering magnetic nanoparticles and applications for magnetic recording media, spin valve devices, and tunnel junction structures and possible magnetic random access memory.

Chapter 12 shows an experimental breakthrough of the observation of both high strength and good ductility in some nanocrystalline materials.

Chapter 13 reports on a Ti-based alloy with a nanocrystalline matrix and micron-scale ductile dendrites exhibiting both high strength and good ductility.