Volume is indexed by Thomson Reuters CPCI-S (WoS). The Industrial Revolution showed that the development and improvement of new materials and functions could bring about social change, and benefit human society. However, one can be forgiven for feeling that more recent materials research, particularly in the domain of metals, has focused only upon individual elemental characteristics and narrow specialty fields, and that the original vision of materials research has thus been lost.

Thoughts on the Occasion of the Second Transformation in Materials Science Interfaces and Properties of Advanced Materials Observation of Lattice Defects and Nondestructive Evaluation of Fatigue Life in FeAl and Ni3Al Based Alloy by Means of Magnetic Measurement Metallurgical and Mechanical Heterogeneity in Weld Materials Considering Multiple Heat Cycles and Phase Transformation Pseudoelasticity in Fe3Al Single Crystals under Cyclic Loading Damage Mechanism for Controlling Ductile Cracking of Structural Steel with Heterogeneous Microstructure Superplastic Deformation and Thermal Crystallization Behavior of Supercooled Liquid in Zr-Ni Based Metallic Glass Effect of Cooling Rate on As-Cast Texture of Low-Carbon Steel Strips During Rapid Solidification Microstructural Evolution during Simple Heavy Warm Deformation of a Low-Carbon Steel Effect of Hydrogen on the Fracture Behavior of High-Strength Cr-Mo Steel Evaluation Method for Fracture Mechanics-Based Material Toughness from Charpy Impact Test Temperature and Orientation Dependence of Fracture Behavior of Directionally Solidified Duplex-Phase Crystals Composed of Ni3X-Type Intermetallic Compounds Microstructural Evolution in 36%Ni Austenitic Steel during the ARB Process Fine-Grained Structure Formation in 7475 Al Alloy during Hot Multidirectional Forging Tensile Deformation Behaviors of Ultrafine Grained Al-Fe-Si Alloy Sheets EBSD and TEM Characterization of Ultrafine Grained High Purity Aluminum Produced by Accumulative Roll-Bonding Acetate and Chloride Effects on Hydrogen Production across Crevices Process of the One-Dimensional Motion of Small Interstitial-Type Dislocation Loops in Iron Effect of Electron Irradiation on Nanocrystallization of Fe-Nd-B Amorphous Alloys Isothermal Oxidation Behavior of Ru Modified Aluminide Coating on a Fourth Generation Single Crystal Superalloy Variant Selection of Plate Martensite in Fe-28.5at.%Ni Alloy Internal Stress Field in Ultrafine Grained Aluminium Fabricated by Accumulative Roll-Bonding Tailored Electrochemical Surface Modification of Semiconductors Application of Large Magnetocaloric Effects in Itinerant-Electron Metamagnets to Cooling Systems Ferromagnetic Shape-Memory Alloys Development of Photonic Fractals as New Functionally Structured Materials for Electromagnetic Wave Control Behaviors of Nonequilibrium Carriers in Er, O-Codoped GaAs for 1.5 m Light-Emitting Devices with Extremely Stable Wavelength Magnetism of Ultrathin Fe Films in the Vicinity of Transition from Ferromagnetism to Superparamagnetism Magnetization Chirality of Ni-Fe and Ni-Fe/Mn-Ir Asymmetric Ring Dots for High-Density Memory Cells Change of Interlayer Exchange Coupling between the Adjacent Magnetic Transition Metal Layers across a Rare-Earth Metal Layer by Hydrogenation Magnetic Phase Diagram in Layered Perovskite Manganite La2-2xSr1+2xMn2O7 (0.313 x 0.350) Martensitic Transformation of Ni-Mn-Ga Alloys under Magnetic Field and Hydrostatic Pressure Magnetocrystalline Anisotropy and Twinning Stress of 10M and 2M Martensites in Ni-Mn-Ga System Influence of Magnetic Field Direction and Temperature on Rearrangement of Martensite Variants in Fe-31.2at.%Pd Anodic Porous Zirconium Oxide Prepared in Sulfuric Acid Electrolytes Surface Properties of Ag-Cu-Zr Liquid Alloys in Relation to the Wettability of Boride Ceramics Low Temperature Synthesis of TiO2 / SrTiO3 Films on Ti Substrate Microstructures Formed by Charge Ordering Transition in Pr0.55Ca0.45MnO3 and Nd0.5Sr0.5MnO3 Strong Localization of Electromagnetic Wave in Ceramic/Epoxy Photonic Fractals with Menger-Sponge Structure Stability of the B2-Type Structure of Ti-Ni-Fe and Ti-Ni-Co Shape Memory Alloys Design of Automatic Matching System for Very High Frequency Plasma-Enhanced Processes Recent Development of New Alloys for Biomedical Use Electrochemical Characterization of Ti and Ti Base Alloys under Simulated Body Fluid Environment Crystallographic Approach to Regenerated and Pathological Hard Tissues Role of Stress Distribution on Healing Process of Preferential Alignment of Biological Apatite in Long Bones Role of Osteoclast in Preferential Alignment of Biological Apatite (BAp) in Long Bones Crystal Orientation in High Magnetic Field Microstructural Tailoring of Open-Pore Microcellular Aluminium by Replication Processing Fabrication of Porous Aluminium and Copper Media by Using Monotectic Solidification under a Magnetic Field Fabrication and Properties of Porous Materials with Directional Elongated Pores Convection in Weld Pool under Microgravity and Terrestrial Conditions Advanced Eco-Materials Processing from By-Products Novel Method Determining Contact Angle of Liquid Au on Solid Al2O3 Single Crystal (0001) Surface at 1373K Study of Microstructure in Surface-Melted Region of Ni-Base Single Crystal Superalloy CMSX-4 Design of Lubricants Using Waste Slag in Large Strain Addition Strip Processing for Ultrafine-Grained Steels Measurement and Analysis of Vibration Damping Capacity of Lotus-Type Porous Magnesium Extended Effective-Mean-Field Analysis for Electrical Conductivity of Lotus-Type Porous Nickel Fabrication and Tensile Properties of Lotus-Type Porous Iron and SUS304L Stainless Steel Analysis of Second Harmonic Pulse Distortion Induced by Repetitive Irradiation Femtosecond Laser Synthesis of the High-Pressure Phase of Iron Interfacial Microstructure and Joint Strength of Sn-Ag and Sn-Ag-Cu Lead Free Solders Reflowed on Cu/Ni-P/Au Metallization Enhancement of Reaction of Zinc on Superficially Nanocrystallized IF Steel by Near Surface-Severe Plasitc Deformation Influence of Resin Viscosity and Filler Volume on Self-Organized Micro Interconnection Effective Heat Transfer Analysis by Mesh Superposition Method Application of Numerical Simulation Considering the Effect of Phase Transformation to the Estimation of Hardness Distribution in Welds Bonding of Various Metals Using Ag Metallo-Organic Nanoparticles-A Novel Bonding Process Using Ag Metallo-Organic Nanoparticles- Effect of Threads on Tool in Friction Stir Welding of Aluminum Alloys Fundamental Measurements of the Friction on an Atomically-Flat Terrace of Au(100) in Sulfuric Acid Solution under Potential Control Using Electrochemical Atomic Force Microscope Microscopic Structure of Water Flow through Carbon Nanotubes