The origin of this literatre review was a request from Ola Jensrud at Raufoss Technology back in 1995, as for whether I could put together an overview of the effects of Sc in Al alloys based on what I had learned so far in my Dr. Ing. work. This lead to a 14-page summary in Norwegian, distributed to a handful of people in Norway.

As the Dr. Ing. work proceeded I continuously searched the literature for published work on Sc in Al alloys (and I still do), and I decided to include a literature review in my thesis. The structure of the original work for O. Jensrud was largely preserved, but of course the content was heavily expanded. In order to be able to submit the thesis in time (2002), I had to round off the review a bit earlier that what I would prefer to.

After the thesis, I spent some odd evenings over the next 1-2 years for expanding, updating and revising the review, until it finally some time early in 2004 had reached a state suitable for publication. Encouraged by my supervisor, prof. Nils Ryum, I approached International Materials Reviews and fortunately they accepted to receive a submission. The rest is history, and the review appeared in issue no. 1 in 2005.

Acknowledgements

Over the years I have been in contact with numerous persons regarding the literature review. These are persons I have discussed the topic with, persons that have sent me articles on Sc in Al-alloys (either by request or as a response to the Al-Sc web pages) and persons that in some other way have shed ligth over this topic.

I feel a little bit bad for not taking the time to include an acknowledgemet for this in the literature review, and I want to make it up by doing so here on this web-page. Thank you everybody for your input. I hope I have not forgotten anybody:

Alan J. Ardell, UCLA, USA Timothy Bastow, CSIRO, Australia Steven Celotto, University of Cambridge, England Fionnuala Costello, University of Manchester, England Alexander M. Diskin, Israel Aircraft Industries Ltd., Israel Olaf Engler, Hydro Aluminium, Germany Yemi Fasoyinu, CANMET, Canada Riccardo Ferro, Genova University, Italy Shin-Itiroh Fujikawa, Tohoku University, Japan Børge Forbord, SINTEF, Norway Håkon Hallem, NTNU, Norway Yoshihisa Harada, AIST, Japan Kristian Hyde, University of Manchester, England Ola Jensrud, Raufoss Technology, Norway Richard Karnesky, Northwestern University, USA Kevin L. Kendig, Air Force Research Laboratory, USA Emmanuelle Marquis, Northwestern University, USA Yasuhiro Miura, Kyushu University, Japan

Peter Nagy, Hungalu, Hungary Andy Norman, University of Manchester, England Oddvin Reiso, Hydro Aluminium, Norway Joseph Robson, University of Manchester, England Hans J. Roven, NTNU, Norway Yancy W. Riddle, Universal Chemical Technologies Inc., USA Rainer Schmid-Fetzer, TU Clausthal, Germany Alwin Schulz, IWT-Bremen, Germany David N. Seidman, Northwestern University, USA Christophe Sigli, Alcan, France Oleg Sitdikov, NIMS, Japan Gro Stakkestad, Hydro Aluminium, Norway Edgar A. Starke, Jr., University of Virginia, USA Stian Tangen, NTNU, Norway John Vetrano, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA Håkon Westengen, Hydro Aluminium, Norway Kee-Do Woo, Chonbuk National University, Korea Tim Worstall, The Low Hanging Fruit Company, Portugal