Disorder and Strain-Induced Complexity in Functional Materials

1. Domain Boundary Engineering in Ferroic and Multiferroic Materials: A Simple Introduction
Ekhard K. H. Salje, Jason C. Lashley

2. 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, T. Kakeshita, T. Fukuda, V. V. Sokolovskiy, V. D. Buchelnikov

3. Ni–Mn–X Heusler Materials
Ryosuke Kainuma, Rie Y. Umetsu

4. 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, L. Mañosa, A. Planes, P. P. Deen

5. Magnetic Field-Induced Strain in Ferromagnetic Shape Memory Alloys Fe-31.2Pd, Fe3Pt, and Ni2MnGa
Takashi Fukuda, Tomoyuki Kakeshita

6. Soft Electronic Matter: Inhomogeneneous Phases in Strongly Correlated Condensed Matter
Peter B. Littlewood

7. Defects in Ferroelectrics
Wenwu Cao

8. High-Resolution Visualization Techniques: Structural Aspects
D. Schryvers, S. Aert

9. High-Resolution Visualizing Techniques: Magnetic Aspects
Yasukazu Murakami

10. Understanding Glassy Phenomena in Materials
David Sherrington

11. Strain Glass and Strain Glass Transition
Xiaobing Ren

12. Precursor Nanoscale Textures in Ferroelastic Martensites
Pol Lloveras, Teresa Castán, Antoni Planes, Avadh Saxena

13. Metastability, Hysteresis, Avalanches, and Acoustic Emission: Martensitic Transitions in Functional Materials
Martin-Luc Rosinberg, Eduard Vives

14. Entropy–Driven Conformations Controlling DNA Functions
A. R. Bishop, K. Ø. Rasmussen, A. Usheva, Boian S. Alexandrov

15. Conclusion and Outlook
Per-Anker Lindgård

Keywords: Materials Science, Structural Materials, Magnetism, Magnetic Materials, Ceramics, Glass, Composites, Natural Methods, Nanoscale Science and Technology, Applied and Technical Physics