Nanostructured Materials - from Fundamentals to Applications

Nanostructured materials are known to possess properties, or combinations of properties, which can be novel or even outstanding. Continued interest in these materials, however, will depend not only on good properties, but also in finding applications in which those properties can be exploited. A few topics are selected from this broad field, focusing on the length scale of the microstructure in the materials - how it affects properties, how it might have optimum values, and how it is affected by processing. Some key developments for applications are briefly reviewed.