Materials for Tomorrow: Theory, Experiments and Modelling (Springer Series in Materials Science, 93) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3540479708 ISBN 13: 9783540479703

Publisher: Springer, 2007

Synopsis

Materials science has assumed a key position for new technological dev- opments, and is therefore strongly supported by industry and governments. Nowadays it occupies a bridging position between physics, chemistry and - gineering and extends from basic science in physics and chemistry on the atomic scale to large-scale applications in industry. The increasing number of materials science study courses at universities underlines the present and future importance of understanding and developing materials for the future. The contributions to this book evolved from the lectures of such a course, namely the Heraeus summer school on “New Materials for Today, Tomorrow and Beyond”, held at Chemnitz University of Technology in October 2004. Looking at the rapidly developing communications industry, it is obvious that a large part of current research for future materials is devoted to the understanding of materials to be used in nanometer (nm) scale devices. It is therefore not surprising that ?ve of the six lectures collected in this volume aredevotedmoreor less directly to the nm scale,while the ?rstonetreats one ofthecentralunsolvedproblemsofcondensedmatterphysicsand–becauseof thewidespreadindustrialapplicationofglassesineverydaylife–touchingalso materialsscience.Someofthematerialsdiscussedherearealreadyusedtoday, for others the development has proceeded far enough that their application can be expected in the near future. Yet others, however, we will not be ready to use until some years from now, assuming that the di?culties connected with their application are solved in the near future.

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About the Author

Sibylle Gemming is senior scientist at the Institute of Ion-Beam Physics and Materials Research, Forschungszentrum Rossendorf, Dresden, Germany

Michael Schreiber holds the chair of Theory of Disordered Systems at Chemnitz University of Technology

Jens-Boie Suck held a chair of Material Science and Liquids at Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany. Now em.Prof. of the same University, Extraordinarius at the University of Bale, Switzerland

From the Back Cover

This book contains six chapters on central topics in materials science. Each is written by specialists in the field, and gives a state-of-the-art presentation of the subject for graduate students and scientists not necessarily working in that field. Computer simulations of new materials, theory and experimental work are all extensively discussed. As nanomaterials are of great current interest, most of the topics discussed have a bearing on nanomaterials and nanodevices. In addition to inorganic nanotubes, metallic nanocrystals, electronic nanodevices, spintronics and interfaces on an atomic scale, the text also presents computer simulations on one of the less well understood fields in solid-state physics and materials science: glasses and undercooled fluids.

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3540479708
• ISBN 13: 9783540479703
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 208
• Editor: Gemming Sibylle, Schreiber Michael, Suck Jens-Boie