The development of new materials has been a hallmark of technological advancement since at least the Bronze Age, when copper and tin were alloyed to create tools that had properties favorable to those made from stone. For thousands of years, until the development of microscope imaging, new materials continued to be developed “blindly,” without any understanding of the effects of the structure at the micro- or nanoscale on the observable properties of a material. With the advent of sensing modalities, such as electron microscopy and X-ray tomography, huge amounts of microstructural data of many different classes of materials have become available.

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先进材料的信号处理 [来自客座编辑]


至少从青铜时代开始，新材料的开发就一直是技术进步的标志，当时铜和锡被合金化，制造出的工具具有与石头工具相媲美的性能。几千年来，直到显微镜成像的发展，新材料继续“盲目”开发，没有任何了解微米或纳米尺度的结构对材料可观察特性的影响。随着电子显微镜和 X 射线断层扫描等传感方式的出现，许多不同类别材料的大量微观结构数据已经变得可用。