International Conference (4th) on Nanostructured Materials Held in Stockholm, Sweden on 14-19 June 1998. Special Volume - Part B. Volume 12, Numbers 5-8, 1999
Abstract
From the contents of the presentations we see clear trends of exploiting the driving force of nanotechnology within the limits of imagination. Chemists are getting closer to post modern alchemy wherein dream materials are being modeled and synthesized almost at a molecular level. Physicists and materials scientists have engineered, atom by atom, features with increasing ease. The art of developing functionalized nanostructured materials exploiting unusual interfacial properties seems to have produced hitherto unknown man-made materials. The consequent natural lead to the world of self-assembled systems appears to bring the field closer to mimicking nature. Exploitations of the size-related properties of nanostructured materials include transparent-to-opaque ceramics, superplasticity, catalysts, and materials with enhanced mechanical properties (e.g. unusually hard material tools etc.), just to name a few. Complex tailored multilayer systems have produced value-added components of promise like the GMR heads, unusual soft and hard magnets, quantum dots,...
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jun 19, 1998
- Accession Number
- ADA372522
Entities
People
- Bernard H. Kear
- Richard W. Siegel
- Thomas Tsakalakos
Organizations
- Rutgers University–New Brunswick