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Electrochemical Fabrication of Nanostructured, Compositionally Modulated Metal Multilayers (CMMMs)

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Compositionally modulated (CM) materials started attracting attention when it was found that they had unusual mechanical [1, 2], magnetic [3–5], electronic [5], and corrosion properties [6–9]. Nanostructured, compositionally modulated materials usually consist of stacks of two or three different metals, metal oxides, ceramics, as shown in Fig. 1, which have significantly different properties.

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Roy, S. (2009). Electrochemical Fabrication of Nanostructured, Compositionally Modulated Metal Multilayers (CMMMs). In: Schmuki, P., Virtanen, S. (eds) Electrochemistry at the Nanoscale. Nanostructure Science and Technology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-73582-5_9

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