1. Preface

   Preface Pages: 1 - 3

2. Publisher's Note

   Announcement Pages: 5 - 5

3. Nanocrystalline materials – Current research and future directions

   • C. Suryanarayana
   • C.C. Koch

   OriginalPaper Pages: 5 - 44

4. Mixing of iron with various metals by high-energy ball milling of elemental powder mixtures

   • G. Le Caër
   • T. Ziller
   • C. Bellouard

   OriginalPaper Pages: 45 - 70

5. Magnetic structures developed under milling in Al0.4Fe0.6

   • L. Mendoza-Zélis
   • M. Meyer

   OriginalPaper Pages: 71 - 80

6. Grain boundaries of nanocrystalline materials – their widths, compositions, and internal structures

   • B. Fultz
   • H.N. Frase

   OriginalPaper Pages: 81 - 108

7. Preparation of nanocrystalline metal hydrides by ball milling

   • R.A. Dunlap
   • Z.H. Cheng
   • D.A. Small

   OriginalPaper Pages: 109 - 126

8. Mössbauer spectroscopic studies of defect structure and alloying effects in nanostructured materials

   • Georg Rixecker

   OriginalPaper Pages: 127 - 150

9. Structural, thermal and deformation-induced point defects in PdIn

   • Gary S. Collins
   • Praveen Sinha

   OriginalPaper Pages: 151 - 179

10. Structure and magnetic properties of nanocrystalline soft ferromagnets

    • T. Kemény
    • D. Kaptás
    • D.L. Beke

    OriginalPaper Pages: 181 - 219

11. Soft and hard nanostructured magnetic materials

    • A. Hernando
    • J.M. González

    OriginalPaper Pages: 221 - 240

12. Nanocrystalline oxide zinc materials studied by the Mössbauer effect, μSR and neutron diffraction

    • W. Potzel
    • W. Schäfer
    • G.M. Kalvius

    OriginalPaper Pages: 241 - 273

13. From ceramic–matrix nanocomposites to the synthesis of carbon nanotubes

    • P. Coquay
    • Ch. Laurent
    • R.E. Vandenberghe

    OriginalPaper Pages: 275 - 300