The Magic of Plutonium: 5f Electrons and Phase Instability

From: Metallurgical and Materials Transactions | Date: August 1, 2004| Author: Hecker, S S | Copyright information

This article was presented at a symposium held in honor of Terence E. (Terry) Mitchell for his many contributions to materials science. Terry Mitchell has explored the magic of materials during his distinguished 40-plus year career, always going back to the fundamentals to understand the behavior of complex materials. He has covered a wide range of materials from metals and alloys, to ceramics, intermetallics, strained-layer superlattices, high-temperature superconductors, and nanostructured ...

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