Description: The editors have tackled an enormous challenge and have met with considerable success. These volumes will be an important reference source for all scientists involved with the properties, processing and uses of materials, and especially for teachers of courses in the materials field. Nature Not only is it authoritative, encyclopedic, well organized and useful, but the same unexpected pleasures found while browsing any encyclopedia are encountered here too...Given the encyclopedia's scope, the test of its usefulness rests on the editors' ability to make the entries accessible to the reader whose interest is narrow. The editors succeeded admirably. All the entries are linked with comprehensive cross-references...A reader who follows all the leads provided will be exposed to an expert summary of the topic from a variety of viewpoints...a benefit not readily found elsewhere. MRS Bulletin

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