Nanostructures: Synthesis, Functional Properties and Application

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xvii

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2. Nanostructures and Nanotechnology

   1. Nanostructures and Nanotechnology: Perspectives and New Trends

      • Thomas Tsakalakos

      Pages 1-36

3. Synthesis of Nanostructures

   1. Engineering of Nanostructured Materials

      • Mamoun Muhammed

      Pages 37-79

   2. Size and Shape of Epitaxial Nanostructures

      • R. Stanley Williams, Gilberto Medeiros-Ribeiro

      Pages 81-93

   3. Molecularly Assembled Interfaces for Nanomachines

      • Vladimir V. Tsukruk

      Pages 95-109

   4. Shape Fabrication of Cotton-Derived Inorganic Hollow Ribbons

      • A. B. Bourlinos, N. Boukos, D. Petridis

      Pages 111-116

4. Nanobiotechnology

   1. Nature and Nanotechnology

      • S. C. Goheen, K. A. Gaither, A. R. Rayburn

      Pages 117-137

5. Processing and Consolidation

   1. Genesis of Nanosized Particles, Grains and Interfaces in the Rate-Controlled Processes of Synthesis and Sintering of Ceramics

      • Andrey V. Ragulya, Valery V. Skorokhod

      Pages 139-154

6. Modelling and Mechanical Behaviour

   1. Impact of Grain Boundaries on Structural and Mechanical Properties

      • H. Van Swygenhoven, P. M. Derlet, A. Hasnaoui, M. Samaras

      Pages 155-167

   2. Current Status of Grain Growth Modelling with Special Reference to Nanocrystalline Materials

      • Chandra S. Pande, Robert A. Masumura

      Pages 169-178

   3. Discussion about Scaling Effects in Metals with a Continuum Mechanics Approach

      • S. Pommier, A. Phelippeau, C. Prioul

      Pages 179-204

7. Mechanical Properties of Nanomaterials

   1. Defects and Deformation Mechanisms in Nanocrystalline Materials

      • I. A. Ovid’ko

      Pages 205-215

   2. Scale Dependent Anelasticity and Mechanical Behavior: The Case of Nanocrystalline Metals

      • E. Bonetti, L. Pasquini, L. Savini

      Pages 217-237

   3. Bulk Nanostructured SPD Materials with Advanced Properties

      • R. Z. Valiev, I. V. Alexandrov

      Pages 239-249

   4. Heavily Drawn Eutectoid Steel: A Nanostructured Material

      • A. Phelippeau, S. Pommier, C. Prioul, M. Clavel

      Pages 251-270

8. Nanocrystallization and Phase Transformations in Nanostructured Materials

   1. Cluster Structure of the Amorphous State and (NANO)Crystallization of Rapidly Quenched Iron and Cobalt Based Systems

      • Peter Švec, Katarina Krištiaková, Marian Deanko

      Pages 271-294

   2. The Influence of the Grain Boundary Phase Transitions on the Properties of Nanostructured Materials

      • B. B. Straumal

      Pages 295-312

   3. Atomic Ordering as a New Method of Producing a Nanostructure

      • A. I. Gusev, A. A. Rempel

      Pages 313-327

   4. Particularities of Martensitic Transformations in Nanosructured Fe-Mn System Obtained by Mechanical Alloying

      • L. Yu. Pustov, S. D. Kaloshkin, E. I. Estrin, G. Principi, V. V. Tcherdyntsev, E. V. Shelekhov

      Pages 329-337

9. Nanostructured Films and Coatings

   1. Misfit Defects in Nanostructured Films

      • A. E. Romanov

      Pages 339-352

The Advanced Study Institute on Synthesis, Functional Properties and Applications of Nanostructures, held at the Knossos Royal Village, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, July 26, 2002 - August 4, 2002, successfully reviewed the state-of-the-art of nanostructures and nanotechnology. It was concluded that Nanotechnology is widely agreed to be the research focus that will lead to the next generation of breakthroughs in science and engineering. There are three cornerstones to the expectation that Nanotechnology will yield revolutionary advances in understanding and application: • Breakthroughs in properties that arise from materials fabricated from the nanoscale. • Synergistic behavior that arise from the combination of disparate types of materials (soft vs. hard, organic vs. inorganic, chemical vs. biological vs. solid state) at the nanoscale. • Exploitation of natural (e.g. chemical and biological) assembly mechanisms that can accomplish structural control at the nanoscale. It is expected that this will lead to paradigms for assembling bio-inspired functional systems that accomplish desirable properties that are either unavailable or prohibitively expensive using top-down approaches.

• ceramics
• continuum mechanics
• deformation
• electron microscopy
• ferroelectrics
• iron
• metals
• microscopy

• Department of Ceramic & Materials Engineering, Rutgers University, Piscataway, USA

  Thomas Tsakalakos

• Institute of Problems for Mechanical Engineering, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia

  Ilya A. Ovid’ko

• Materials Division, Office of Naval Research Arlington, Arlington, USA

  Asuri K. Vasudevan

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