Yannick Champion & Hans-Jörg Fecht 
Nano-Architectured and Nanostructured Materials [PDF ebook] 
Fabrication, Control and Properties

Prof. Dr. Hans-Jörg Fecht is head of the Materials Division of the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Ulm, director of the center for Micro- and Nanomaterials at Ulm, and also leads a group at the Institute of Nanotechnology of Research Center Karlsruhe.
He received his Ph.D. in Materials Science in 1984 from the University of Saarbrücken, then spent several years in the USA at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and CIT in Pasadena. He returned to Germany to professorships in Augsburg, Berlin, and since 1997, in Ulm. He has received the G.W. Leibniz award of the German Research Foundation (DFG), and has (co-)authored more than 200 technical papers. He is co-organizer of several European conferences and on several European advisory boards.
Professor Yannick Champion is with the CNRS Research Center for Chemical Metallurgy in Vitry-sur-Seine. His research concentrates on nanocrystalline metals and materials and characterization and improvement of their mechanical properties. He was awarded several national and international prizes for his scientific work and co-organized several scientific conferences and serves on ther Editorial and Advisory Boards of international journals.