| This course covers the selected examples of contemporary research of novel materials which are not included in the other special courses. Introduction: metals and alloys, ceramics, composites, polymers. Aerogels. Bulk metallic glasses. Biomaterials. Nanomaterials. Functional and smart materials: electro/magnetostrictive, photomechanical, magnetocaloric, thermolectric, electro/magneto-rheological ... materials. Carbon: fullerenes, graphene, carbon nanotubes. Materials for energy production and storage. Metamaterials.
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                                                                                                                        J. I. Gersten, F. W. Smith, The Physics and Chemistry of Materials, John Wiley & Sons, 2001Smart Materials, ed. Mel Schwartz, CRC Press, 2008 |