ABSTRACT
The promising technological challenges offered by nanostructured materials are a consequence of their three important features: (1) at least some of phase heterogeneity occurs in the size range of nanostructures (~1 to 100 nm); (2) such heterogeneity is crucial in determining properties; and (3) at least in part nanostructures are synthesized, distributed (or organized) by design (atom by atom, molecule by molecule, particle by particle).1
