Deals with the influence of stoiciometry and order/disorder on materials properties. It summarizes the knowledge available in a comprehensive way.

This exhaustive work in several volumes and over 2500 pages provides a thorough treatment of ultra-high temperature materials (with melting points around or ove

In the monograph, the first of this type in the world, the authors discuss systematically the current state of investigations into nanocrystalline materials. Th

Over the past few decades, devices and technologies have been significantly miniaturized from one generation to the next, providing far more potential in a much