Disorder and Strain-Induced Complexity in Functional Materials

1. Front Matter

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2. Domain Boundary Engineering in Ferroic and Multiferroic Materials: A Simple Introduction

   • Ekhard K. H. Salje, Jason C. Lashley

   Pages 1-18

3. Phase Diagrams of Conventional and Inverse Functional Magnetic Heusler Alloys: New Theoretical and Experimental Investigations

   • P. Entel, M. E. Gruner, A. Hucht, A. Dannenberg, M. Siewert, H. C. Herper et al.

   Pages 19-47

4. Ni–Mn–X Heusler Materials

   • Ryosuke Kainuma, Rie Y. Umetsu

   Pages 49-65

5. Magnetic Interactions Governing the Inverse Magnetocaloric Effect in Martensitic Ni–Mn-Based Shape-memory Alloys

   • S. Aksoy, M. Acet, T. Krenke, E. F. Wassermann, M. Gruner, P. Entel et al.

   Pages 67-77

6. Magnetic Field-Induced Strain in Ferromagnetic Shape Memory Alloys Fe-31.2Pd, Fe3Pt, and Ni2MnGa

   • Takashi Fukuda, Tomoyuki Kakeshita

   Pages 79-94

7. Soft Electronic Matter: Inhomogeneneous Phases in Strongly Correlated Condensed Matter

   • Peter B. Littlewood

   Pages 95-112

8. Defects in Ferroelectrics

   • Wenwu Cao

   Pages 113-134

9. High-Resolution Visualization Techniques: Structural Aspects

   • D. Schryvers, S. Van Aert

   Pages 135-149

10. High-Resolution Visualizing Techniques: Magnetic Aspects

    • Yasukazu Murakami

    Pages 151-176

11. Understanding Glassy Phenomena in Materials

    • David Sherrington

    Pages 177-199

12. Strain Glass and Strain Glass Transition

    • Xiaobing Ren

    Pages 201-225

13. Precursor Nanoscale Textures in Ferroelastic Martensites

    • Pol Lloveras, Teresa Castán, Antoni Planes, Avadh Saxena

    Pages 227-247

14. Metastability, Hysteresis, Avalanches, and Acoustic Emission: Martensitic Transitions in Functional Materials

    • Martin-Luc Rosinberg, Eduard Vives

    Pages 249-272

15. Entropy–Driven Conformations Controlling DNA Functions

    • A. R. Bishop, K. Ø. Rasmussen, A. Usheva, Boian S. Alexandrov

    Pages 273-292

16. Conclusion and Outlook

    • Per-Anker Lindgård

    Pages 293-301

17. Back Matter

    Pages 303-308

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This book brings together an emerging consensus on our understanding of the complex functional materials including ferroics, perovskites, multiferroics, CMR and high-temperature superconductors. The common theme is the existence of many competing ground states and frustration as a collusion of spin, charge, orbital and lattice degrees of freedom in the presence of disorder and (both dipolar and elastic) long-range forces. An important consequence of the complex unit cell and the competing interactions is that the emergent materials properties are very sensitive to external fields thus rendering these materials with highly desirable, technologically important applications enabled by cross-response.

• disorder and strain
• ferroics and multiferroics
• functional materials
• glassy behaviour
• glassy phenomena in materials
• high resolution visualization techniques
• magnetostructural coupling
• phase transitions
• soft electronic matter
• strain glasses and martensites

• , Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan

  Tomoyuki Kakeshita, Takashi Fukuda

• Theoretical Division, T-11, MS B262, Los Alamos National Lab, Los Alamos, USA

  Avadh Saxena

• Dept. d'Estructura i Constituents, de la Matèria, Universidad de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

  Antoni Planes

Prof. Kakeshita is a leading researcher in the discipline of physical properties under extreme conditions. He also is the leader of a Global COE program, which is competitive educational program for PhD course student supported by the Japanese government. Dr. Fukuda is a distinguished researcher in the field of martensitic transformation. Prof. Planes and Dr. Saxena have previously been co-editors of a Springer book on "Magnetism and Structure in Functional Materials".

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