Surfaces and Interfaces in Nanostructured Materials And, Trends in LIGA, Miniaturization, and Nanoscale Materials : Proceedings of Symposium Sponsored by the Materials Processing & Manufacture Division (MPMD) of TMS (The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society : Held at the 2004 TMS Annual Meeting, Charlotte, North Carolina, March 14-18, 2004

This volume combines the proceedings of two prominent symposiapresented by TMS's Materials Processing and Manufacturing Division(MPMD).

Papers from the Surfaces and Interfaces in NanostructuredMaterials Symposium bring together experts working on differentaspects of study, such as fabrication, characterization,modification, and modeling, to identify and address importantissues, such as structure-chemistry-property relationships; surfaceengineering approaches in the nanoscale regime; chemistry andatomic bonding at interfaces; kinetics, diffusion paths, andrelated effects at interfaces; fabrication of "bulk"nanostructures; and advances in interfacialmodification/engineering techniques.

Proceedings from the Global Innovations Symposium on MaterialsProcessing and Manufacturing: Trends in LIGA, Miniaturization, andNanoscale Materials, the fifth in a series sponsored by the MPMD,provide description, insight, challenges, and projections foradvances in miniaturized part manufacturing, evaluation, andapplications. This collection provides a visionary look to whereinvestments in materials research are likely to occur and whatareas in materials R&D are ripe for discoveries that will havemajor impact on quality of life.

From 2004 TMS Annual Meeting which was held inCharlotte, North Carolina, March 14-18, 2004.