Fundamental Properties of Nanostructured Materials

The purpose of this school, addressed to young researchers and graduate students (physicists, chemists and engineers), was to provide the basis of fundamental properties of nanostructured materials and an introduction to more specialized and up-to-date topics.

The topics were remarkably interdisciplinary, covering theory, materials preparation, structural characterization, thermodynamic aspects and mechanical, optical, electrical and magnetic properties.Contents:Synthesis of Nanostructured Materials: Synthesis, Structure and Properties of Nanostructured Materials (R W Siegel)Nanocrystalline Soft Ferromagnetic Alloys Obtained by Devitrification of an Amorphous Phase: Kinetic Aspects (P Allia & F Vinai)Mill Scale-Up and Cost Analysis in the Mechanosynthesis of Nanophase Materials (D Basset et al)Electronic, Structural and Thermodynamic Properties of Nanostructured Materials:Electronic Structure of Small Metal Particles (A Bifone & F Bassani)Conventional Wide Angle X-Ray Scattering (WAXS): Investigation of Nanocrystalline Powders (S Martelli)Scattering of Slow Neutrons in Nanocrystals (C Petrillo)Physical Properties of Nanostructured Materials: Superparamagnetic Properties of Nanoparticles (D Fiorani & J L Dormann)Magnetic Anisotropy in Nanostructured Materials (M Solzi)Magnetoelasticity and Its Fundamental Role in Nanocrystalline Materials (L Lanotte)and other papersReadership: Materials scientists and condensed matter physicists.