Preface

Excerpt

The European Materials Research Society (E-MRS) Fall Meeting is traditionally held every year at the Warsaw University of Technology in Warsaw, Poland. In 2012, the 11th E-MRS Fall Meeting was held from 17 to 21 September; it included 12 thematic symposia, a plenary session, various satellite events, and the award ceremony of the 2012 Acta Materialia Gold Medal. This award was presented to Professor Terence G. Langdon of the University of Southern California (USA) and the University of Southampton (UK). To mark the occasion, a special Symposium was organized with the title “Recent Developments in the Processing and Properties of Ultrafine-Grained Materials.” The objective of this symposium was to place emphasis on the processing of metals with exceptionally small grain sizes, typically within the submicrometer and nanometer ranges, to examine the physical and mechanical properties of these materials and their potential for use in applications and to continue the series of special issues on this subject that have been published in the Journal of Materials Science [1‐3]. …