About the Author
Valim Levitin is a Professor and the Head of an internationally renowned research group at the National Technical University in Ukraine. His research focuses on studying nature of interatomic bonding, atom vibrations in solids, computer simulation of parameters that determine the behavior of solids, surface physics, and X-ray, TEM, and work-function studies into the fundamentals of material strength. He has published three books and numerous articles in the fields of materials science and solid-state physics.