Editors Yonghao Zhao and Xiaozhou Liao

This special topic volume brings together fifty-eight invited papers, from twenty countries, covering a wide range of issues related to the ductility of bulk nanostructured materials. They include topics such as: deformation mechanisms, basic conceptions and reviews of ductility, ductility-structure relationships, processing and microstructural evolutions. This work provides authoritative guidance on developing strategies to improve the ductility of nanostructured materials and will permit materials designers to optimize the mechanical properties of nanostructured materials.  

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• MSF
  Materials Science Forum
• KEM
  Key Engineering Materials
• SSP
  Solid State Phenomena
• DDF
  Defect and Diffusion Forum
• AMM
  Applied Mechanics and Materials
• AMR
  Advanced Materials Research
• AST
  Advances in Science and Technology
  CIMTEC: http://www.cimtec-congress.org/
• JNanoR
  Journal of Nano Research
  http://www.nano-society.org/
• JBBTE
  Journal of Biomimetics, Biomaterials, and Tissue Engineering
• JMNM
  Journal of Metastable and Nanocrystalline Materials
• MSFo
  Materials Science Foundations (monograph series)
• JERA
  International Journal of Engineering Research in Africa