Obtaining and Characterization of New Materials

<p>At present more and more procedures and technologies used to discover and characterize new materials are available including advanced characterization techniques.</p><p>This Special Issue covers a wide range of topics about obtaining and characterizing new materials from the nano to macro scales including for new alloys ceramics composites biomaterials and polymers and the procedures and technologies used to enhance their structure properties and functions. To select new materials for future use we must first understand their structure and their characteristics using modern techniques such as microscopy (SEM TEM AFM STM etc.) spectroscopy (EDX XRD XRF FTIR XPS etc.) and mechanical tests (tensile hardness elastic modulus toughness etc.) and their behaviors (in vitro and in vivo; corrosion; and thermal-DSC STA DMA magnetic properties and biocompatibility) among many others.</p>