TY - BOOK ID - 107399690 TI - Properties and Applications of Nanocrystalline Alloys from Amorphous Precursors AU - Idzikowski, Bogdan AU - Miglierini, Marcel AU - Å vec, Peter AU - SpringerLink (Online service) PY - 2005 SN - 9781402029653 PB - Dordrecht Kluwer Academic Publishers DB - UniCat KW - Electromagnetism. Ferromagnetism KW - Solid state physics KW - Chemical structure KW - Metals and their compounds KW - Electrical engineering KW - legeringen KW - nanotechniek KW - spectroscopie KW - fysica KW - metalen KW - magnetisme KW - fysicochemie KW - atoomstructuur UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:107399690 AB - Metallic (magnetic and non-magnetic) nanocrystalline materials have been known for over ten years but only recent developments in the research into those complex alloys and their metastable amorphous precursors have created a need to summarize the most important accomplishments in the field. This book is a collection of articles on various aspects of metallic nanocrystalline materials, and an attempt to address this above need. The main focus of the papers is put on the new issues that emerge in the studies of nanocrystalline materials, and, in particular, on (i) new compositions of the alloys, (ii) properties of conventional nanocrystalline materials, (iii) modeling and simulations, (iv) preparation methods, (v) experimental techniques of measurements, and (vi) different modern applications. Interesting phenomena of the physics of nanocrystalline materials are a consequence of the effects induced by the nanocrystalline structure. They include interface physics, the influence of the grain boundaries, the averaging of magnetic anisotropy by exchange interactions, the decrease in exchange length, and the existence of a minimum two-phase structure at the atomic scale. Attention is also paid to the special character of the local atomic ordering and to the corresponding interatomic bonding as well as to anomalies and particularities of electron density distributions, and to the formation of metastable, nanocrystalline (or quasi-crystalline) phases built from exceptionally small grains with special properties. Another important focus of attention are new classes of materials which are not based on new compositions, but rather on the original and special crystalline structure in the nanoscale. ER -