The Science of Complex Alloy Phases

This book is published in honor of the 2005 Hume-Rothery Award Recipient, Uichiro Mizutani. It emphasizes both theoretical and experimental aspects of electronic, structural, and thermodynamic properties of complex alloy phases. Leading experts provide an assessment of our current understanding of the structural properties of complex materials, including quasicrystalline and amorphous alloys. Special emphasis is placed on our understanding of why nature is able to stabilize complex atomic arrangements and on recent results related to structurally complex alloy phases. These topics, in the spirit of the work carried out by U. Mizutani, constitute the main theme of the book.

This volume reports the proceedings of the Science of Complex Alloy Phases symposium sponsored by the Alloy Phases Committee of the Minerals, Metals and Materials Society. The symposium was held to honor the 2005 William Hume-Rothery Award recipient, Uichiro Mizutani of Nagoya University, Japan. The participants all have made important advances in knowledge of the electronic structure and properties of complex alloys. Addressing current research and implementations of new concepts in efficient computational tools, they discuss such topics as spherical periodicity, semiconducting A1-transition metal alloys, and prediction of site preference and phase stability of transitional metal-based Frank-Kasper phases. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR