Overview: Physics of New Materials starts from basic science,specially solid-state physics, and then moves into theresearch and development of advanced materials. The emphasisof the discussions is concentrated on the electronicandatomic structures and properties of transition-metalsystems, liquidand amorphous materials, the nano-phasematerials, layered compounds, martensite and otherstructural-transformed materials, and orderedalloys.Though these discussions, the physical aspects andprinciples ofnew materials, such as strong ferromagneticalloys, shape memory alloys,amorphous alloys, ultra-fine
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