Advanced Structural and Functional Materials Design

Author: Yukichi Umakoshi
ISBN:9780878499960

Volume is indexed by Thomson Reuters CPCI-S (WoS).
The Industrial Revolution showed that the development and improvement of new materials and functions could bring about social change, and benefit human society. However, one can be forgiven for feeling that more recent materials research, particularly in the domain of metals, has focused only upon individual elemental characteristics and narrow specialty fields, and that the original vision of materials research has thus been lost.