Fundamental Materials Science Series

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General Series Preface

This series of books, which is published at the rate of about one per year, addresses fundamental problems in materials science. The contents cover a broad range of topics from small clusters of atoms to engineering materials and involve chemistry, physics, engineering, and biochemistry with length scales ranging from Ångstroms up to millimeters.

The emphasis is on basic science rather than on applications, with an emphasis on conceptual and theoretical aspects. Each book focuses on a single area of current interest and brings together leading experts to give an up-to-date discussion of their work and the work of others. Each article contains enough references that the interested reader can access the relevant literature.

Thanks are given to the Center for Fundamental Materials Research at Michigan State University for supporting this series of books.

General Series Editor, Michael F. Thorpe
Series published by Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers  (subscription information can be obtained from this site).

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Mike Thorpe
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