Functional and Smart Materials

Preface

In this book a clear understanding of the Functional and Smart Materials is illustrated for various engineering applications by establishing the relationship between their physical properties and the atomic scale structure of materials. Indeed, the development of smart materials will be a vital effort in many fields of science and technology, including automobile, aerospace, microelectronics, computer science, medical treatment, life science, energy, safety engineering, and defense technologies. Further, the materials development in the near-future must be oriented toward the generation of functional materials that can set up new milestones in the different engineering applications such as Biomedical, Aerospace, Automobile, Refineries, ...