Title: Progress in Advanced Structural and Functional Materials Design
Description: This book describes clearly various research topics investigated for these 10 years in the Research Center of Advanced Structural and Functional Materials Design in Osaka University, Japan. Every chapter is aimed at understanding most advanced researches in materials science by describing its fundamentals and details as much as possible. Since both general explanations and cutting-edge commentaries are given for each topic in this book, it provides a lot of useful information for ordinary readers as well as materials scientists & engineers who wish to understand the future development in materials science fields of metals, alloys, ceramics, semiconductors etc.  In particular, this book deals with special fusion area of structural and functional materials such as medical bone materials, of which contents are very unique features as materials science textbook.
Subjects: Materials, Biomedical materials, Materials science, Research, Building materials, Surfaces (Physics), Optical materials, Characterization and Evaluation of Materials, Optical and Electronic Materials