Abstract
The properties of materials are structure-sensitive. Structure is in
turn determined by composition, heat-treatment and processing. Thus it is
necessary to characterize both composition and microstructure at the highest
levels of resolution possible in order to understand materials behavior.
Such characterization requires advanced and sophisticated methods of
analysis using microscopic, diffraction and spectroscopic techniques. For
this of course electron microscopy is particularly versatile, since we are
now routinely synthesizing structure almost at atomic levels of resolution.
The interaction between composition, heat treatment and properties is
complex but this interaction must be understood if materials are to be
improved or new materials to be designed.
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (CUP)
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