**Meet the editors**

Dr.Ing. Marcelo R. Pagnola, born in Buenos Aires on November 22, 1969, completed his training as a mechanical engineer at the Universidad Nacional de Lomas de Zamora, Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1996, with excellent results. He obtained the degree of Doctor of Engineering at the University of Buenos Aires in 2009 with a summa cum laude, after working in the private sector in differ-

ent areas and managerial positions. He is currently a member of CONICET and Director of the Magnetic Materials Pilot Plant, INTECIN. He is also a member of different scientific committees, a reviewer of international publications, and a director of different research projects financed by government agencies at national and international levels. Dr. Pagnola has directed engineering and doctorate theses, has taught university courses in physics and has managed PhD courses in materials and nanomaterials. He is author of more than 50 publications for congresses, as well as international journals and books on materials engineering. He has received different mentions from the Rector of the University of Buenos Aires for his academic contributions to engineering. He is currently working as a professor in the Department of Physics at the Engineering Faculty of the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Dr. Jairo Useche is Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the Universidad Tecnológica de Bolivar at Cartagena de Indias, Colombia, South America. He received his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the State University of Campinas, Brazil, his BS in Mechanical Engineering at the Universidad Tecnológica de Bolivar, Colombia, and his MSc in Mechanical Engineering at the

Universidad de Los Andes, Colombia. Dr. Useche is a consulting engineer and worked as a mechanical engineer in a number of companies for several years. He has been involved in several major projects dealing with numerical modeling, structural mechanics, composite materials, deformable shaft vibrations, and the reliability assessment of buried pipes. He teaches various engineering courses at both undergraduate and graduate levels. He has developed and taught several solid mechanics engineering courses, including mechanics of materials, advanced numerical modeling, structural vibrations, and finite element analysis in solid and structural mechanics. His research and consulting expertise includes structural mechanics, structural reliability of buried pipes, pipes and structural panels under blast loads, composite mechanics of naval structures, and control of fractures in plates.

Dr. Andrés G. Marrugo is currently an associate professor in the Department of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering at the Universidad Tecnológica de Bolívar, Colombia, where he did his BE in Mechatronics Engineering (summa cum laude). He received his PhD in Optical Engineering (cum laude) and MSc in Photonics from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain.

Contents

**Preface VII**

**Stack Materials 3**

Pablo Levy

Chang

**Preservation 73**

Ghioca and Nicoleta Radu

**Section 1 Engineering, Techniques and Processes 1**

**Composed of Nb, Ti and V 25**

Chapter 4 **Sub-2 μm Silica Particles in Chiral Separation 55** Diana Ibrahim and Ashraf Ghanem

Chapter 5 **Polymeric Micro- and Nanosystems for Wood Artifacts**

Chapter 1 **The Atomic Layer Deposition Technique for the Fabrication of**

Chapter 2 **Mechanisms of Significant Precipitation Hardening in a**

Makoto Okonogi, Takuya Hara and Hiromi Miura

Chapter 3 **Elaboration of Nanoporous Copper via Chemical Composition Design of Amorphous Precursor Alloys 39**

**Memristive Devices: Impact of the Precursor on Pre-deposited**

Cynthia P. Quinteros, Alex Hardtdegen, Mariano Barella, Federico Golmar, Félix Palumbo, Javier Curiale, Susanne Hoffmann-Eifert and

**Medium Carbon Bainitic Steel by Complex Nanocarbides**

Zhenhua Dan, Fengxiang Qin, Izumi Muto, Nobuyoshi Hara and Hui

Rodica-Mariana Ion, Ramona-Marina Grigorescu, Lorena Iancu, Paul

He was the recipient of the Honors Diploma for Young Researchers from the Spanish Optical Society (SEDOPTICA). His research interests include optical metrology, biomedical image analysis, computer vision, and image processing.
