This special volume is collected from some papers presented at the 24th International Symposium on Metastable, Amorphous and Nanostructured Materials (ISMANAM 2017, June 18-23, 2017, San Sebastian, Spain) and reflects recent results of research and developments in the field of metastable, amorphous and nanostructured materials and intermetallic compounds. We hope this collection will be interesting and useful for many specialists on modern materials science.

This special volume is collected from some papers presented at the 24th International Symposium on Metastable, Amorphous and Nanostructured Materials (ISMANAM 2017, June 18-23, 2017, San Sebastian, Spain) and reflects recent results of research and developments in the field of metastable, amorphous and nanostructured materials and intermetallic compounds. We hope this collection will be interesting and useful for many specialists on modern materials science. Metastable Materials, Amorphous Materials, Nanostructured Materials, Metallic Glasses, Processing Techniques, Physical Properties, Magnetic Materials, Phase Transformation, Crystallization Process, Porous Materials, Intermetallic Compounds Materials Science.

Volume is indexed by Thomson Reuters CPCI-S (WoS). This collection comprises 25 peer-reviewed contributions providing up-to-date knowledge in the field of “Metastable and Nanostructured Materials”.

Amorphous and nanocrystalline materials are a class of their own. Their properties are quite different to those of the corresponding crystalline materials. This book gives systematic insight into their physical properties, structure, behaviour, and design for special advanced applications.

Nanostructured materials are one of the highest profile classes of materials in science and engineering today, and will continue to be well into the future. Potential applications are widely varied, including washing machine sensors, drug delivery devices to combat avian flu, and more efficient solar panels. Broad and multidisciplinary, the field includes multilayer films, atomic clusters, nanocrystalline materials, and nanocomposites having remarkable variations in fundamental electrical, optic, and magnetic properties.Nanostructured Materials: Processing, Properties and Applications, 2nd Edition is an extensive update to the exceptional first edition snapshot of this rapidly advancing field. Retaining the organization of the first edition, Part 1 covers the important synthesis and processing methods for the production of nanocrystalline materials. Part 2 focuses on selected properties of nanostructured materials. Potential or existing applications are described as appropriate throughout the book. The second edition has been updated throughout for the latest advances and includes two additional chapters.

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.