Special topic volume with invited peer-reviewed papers only

This book is about applied materials research in industry. It presents various important topics and challenges and gives guidance to materials researchers who move to industry. The book focuses on the materials manufacturing issues for industrial application. It deals with developments and challenges in traditional materials areas, such as metals and ceramics, and new opportunities that have risen from nanotechnology and additive manufacturing. The chapters, written by senior people from large companies, include successful manufacturing undertakings, several distinct and unresolved manufacturing challenges, with the focus on approaches, timelines and the skills needed for future company research and development. The book provides a cross-section of current and future approaches valuable for new employees and academics working in industry.

Volume is indexed by Thomson Reuters CPCI-S (WoS). The present volumes contain selected papers providing worldwide state-of-the art knowledge in the fields of thin film and nano materials, composites, coatings, high-temperature alloys, rare-earth materials, energy materials, biological materials, materials strength, design and simulation, and materials processing. This wealth of up-to-date comprehensive information will be of value to anyone working in these domains.

Methods of synthesis, processing and analysis of different materials, advanced approaches in modern Materials Science and industrial technology.Methods of Solid-state science for application in different areas of materials research.