This book addresses central topics in materials science. Each chapter is written by specialists in the field and gives a state-of-the-art presentation of the subject for graduate students and scientists not necessarily working in that field. Computer simulations of new materials, theory and experimental work are all extensively discussed. As nanomaterials are of great current interest, most of the topics discussed have a bearing on nanomaterials and nanodevices. In addition to inorganic nanotubes, metallic nanocrystals, electronic nanodevices, spintronics and interfaces on an atomic scale, the text also presents computer simulations on one of the less well understood fields in solid-state physics and materials science: glasses and undercooled fluids.

Sibylle Gemming is senior scientist at the Institute of Ion-Beam Physics and Materials Research, Forschungszentrum Rossendorf, Dresden, Germany

Michael Schreiber holds the chair of Theory of Disordered Systems at Chemnitz University of Technology

Jens-Boie Suck held a chair of Material Science and Liquids at Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany. Now em.Prof. of the same University, Extraordinarius at the University of Bale, Switzerland