This book describes clearly various research topics investigated for these 10 years in the Research Center of Advanced Structural and Functional Materials Design in Osaka University, Japan. Every chapter is aimed at understanding most advanced researches in materials science by describing its fundamentals and details as much as possible. Since both general explanations and cutting-edge commentaries are given for each topic in this book, it provides a lot of useful information for ordinary readers as well as materials scientists & engineers who wish to understand the future development in materials science fields of metals, alloys, ceramics, semiconductors etc. In particular, this book deals with special fusion area of structural and functional materials such as medical bone materials, of which contents are very unique features as materials science textbook.

Autorentext
KAKESHITA Tomoyuki
Program Leader of Global COE "Advanced Structual and Functional Materials Design"
http://www.mat.eng.osaka-u.ac.jp/gcoe/index-e.html

Inhalt
Advanced Materials Design with Forming.- Fabrication of Porous Metals with Slender Directional Pores.- Modeling of Arc Welding Process.- Advanced Materials Design using Lasers.- Advanced Materials Designs using FSW Technique.- Analaysis of Surface Films Formed on Passive Metals and Alloys using X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS).- Advanced Numerical Simulations of Micro-, Macro-, and Mega-Scale Structurization.- Advanced Analysis of Solidification by X-ray Imaging.- Advanced Materials Design by Microstructure Control under Magnetic Field.- Eco-friendly Materials Recycling Processing.- Advanced Materials Design by Electrochemical Approach - Self-organizing Anodization.- Advanced Materials Design by Irradiation of High Energy Particles.- Advanced Analysis and Control of Bone Microstructure Based on a Materials Scientific Study Including Microbeam X-Ray Diffraction.- Advanced Materials Design by Controlling Transformation Temperature using Magnetic Field.- Advanced Materials Design for Fe-based Shape Memory Alloys through Structural Control.- Fabrication of Photonic Crystals by Stereolithography Technique.- Design, Fabrication, and Properties of Nanomaterials using Ultrathin Film Techniques.- Advanced Materials Design via Low-damage Plasma Processes.- Advanced Analysis of Magnetic Structure in Materials.- Advanced Materials Design by Lithography Technique.- Advanced Materials Design of Rare-earth-doped Semiconductors by Organometallic Vapor Phase Epitaxy.- Advanced Analysis of Defect Formations and Phase Transformations in Nanoparticles by in situ Transmission Electron Microscopy.