A critical, up to date, tutorial review and discussion of the science and technology of nanostructured metallic and ceramic materials. The focus is on the synthesis and processing of nanoparticles, the assembly and stability of nanostructures, characterization and properties, and applications.
There is a growing interest in the processing of nanoparticles into consolidated bulk materials and coatings. The metastability of nanoparticles may lead to undesirable grain growth during thermally assisted consolidation or other processing routes, and the retention of nanostructures in a processed part or component continues to attract a great deal of attention. Current activity is concentrating on the deposition of nanostructured coatings using established thermal spray technology and wet chemistry methods. Naturally existing or artificially synthesized templates with unique structures and morphologies have been used to fabricate nanostructured materials with the same structural and morphological characteristics as the templates. Recent advances in characterization techniques have provided information on the structure, the surface and bulk chemistry of nanoparticles, and the structures and chemistry of exposed and buried surfaces of coatings.
Contributors are drawn from Canada, France, UK, USA, Belarus, Russia and Ukraine.

Inhalt

1. Nanoparticle Synthesis: A Key Process in the Future of Nano-technology.- 2. Nanoparticles and Nanostructures: Aerosol Synthesis and Characterization.- 3. Chemical Synthesis and Processing of Nanostructured Particles and Coatings.- 4. Nanostructured Materials produced by High-Energy Mechanical Milling and Electrodeposition.- 5. Perspective on Nanoparticle Manufacturing Research.- 6. The Nanocrystalline Alloys: The Structure and Properties.- 7. Processing and Properties of Nanostructured Materials prepared by Severe Plastic Deformation.- 8. Changes in Structure and Properties associated with the Transition from the Amorphous to the Nanocrystalline State.- 9. Melt Quenched Nanocrystals.- 10. Quasiperiodic and Disordered Interfaces in Nanostructured Materials.- 11. Micromechanisms of Defects in Nanostructured Materials.- 12. The Properties of Fe-Ni FCC Alloys having a Nanostructure produced by Deformation, Irradiation and Cyclic Phase.- 13. The State-of-the-Art of Nanostructured High Melting Point Compound-Based Materials.- 14. Thermal Spray Processing of Nanocrystalline Materials.- 15. The Surface Characterization of Nanosized Powders: Relevance of the FTIR Surface Spectrometry.- 16. Enhanced Transformation and Sintering of Transitional Alumina through Mechanical Seeding.- 17. Nanostructured Materials for Gas-Reactive Applications.- 18. Nanocrystalline Ceramics for Structural Applications: Processing and Properties.- 19. Features of Nanocrystalline Structure Formation on Sintering of Ultra-Fine Powders.- 20. Consolidation of Nanocrystalline Materials at High Pressures.- 21. Magnetic State, Transport Properties and Structure of Granular Nanophased Systems: 1. Mechanically Alloyed Cu-20%Co System. 2. Hydrogenated Pr(Cu,Co)5 Intermetallics.- 22. Metallic Superlatives withGoverned Non-Collinear Magnetic Ordering: Atomic Structure, Interlayer Exchange and Magnetotransport Properties.