The textbook is one of the most unabridged modern educational titles on materials science. It presents fundamental data on the structure, physical and chemical properties, phase transformations and physical processes of a wide range of materials, including nanostructured, as well as their structure and properties research methods. Possibilities of nanostructures application for the solution of various technical tasks are widely illustrated. In the annex to the textbook a reader would find test tasks with variable answers that are intended for intermediate and final control.
The book is intended for students and graduate students specializing in the area of condensed environments and materials science physics, as well as for experts of various equipment and technologies areas.