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A material that is innovative is manufactured in a way in which changes and new ideas are introduced. In other words, microstructural and physical characteristics are the objectives of design, manufacturing, identification, and prototyping in order to achieve novel multifunctional applications. The aforementioned changes and new ideas may refer to various levels of analysis or different scales of dimensions: atomic scale, nanoscale, (mesoscale), microscale, macroscale, etc., as schematically shown in Fig. 1.1.
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Rustichelli, F., Skrzypek, J. (2010). Introduction and State-of-the-Art. In: Skrzypek, J., Rustichelli, F. (eds) Innovative Technological Materials. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-12059-6_1
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