Nanostructural and microstructural landscapes in materials science

✍ Scribed by T.E. Mitchell

• Book ID: 104297273
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1997
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 192 KB
• Volume: 107
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0167-2789
• DOI: 10.1016/s0167-2789(97)00095-x

✦ Synopsis

In the field of materials science there is an enormous range of landscapes (microstructures) from the atomic level to the macro level. The structures sometimes are periodic -dislocations in boundaries, spinodals, dendrites, fluxons, polysynthetic twins, etc., but more often they are aperiodic or quasiperiodic and therefore difficult to describe quantitatively. The structures in real materials are also usually metastable. What is certainly true is that the properties of materials are controlled by the microstructure at all levels. A summary of this relationship is given.