Structural and Phase Stability of Alloys : Springer : 9781461364931 : 1461364930 : 26 Oct 2012 : This vohune contains the papers presented at the Adriatico Research Conference on Structural and Phase Stability of Alloys held in Trieste, Italy, in May 1991, under the auspices of the International Centre for Theoretical Physics. The conference brought together participants with a variety of interests in theoretical and experimental aspects of alloys from Argentina, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czechslovakia, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Mexico, People's Republic of Congo,Portugal, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States, U. S. S. R. , and Venezuela. The conference was purposely designed to succinctly cover experimental and the­ oretical aspects of magnetic and non-magnetic alloys, surfaces, thin films and nanos­ tructures. The Conference opened with an overview of a select class of advanced structural materials, with a potential in engineering applications, for which the con­ ventional "physi