Advanced Functional Materials

Book Preface

Humankind has achieved dramatic advancement of technology over the Stone Age, the Bronze Age, the Iron Age, the Plastic Age, and the Advanced Materials Age since their advent. Now we are living in the world of advanced materials including plastics, ceramics, renewable energy, sensors, etc. Literally we cannot live in daily life without using millions of products produced from the advanced technology. The developing rate of new technology is very fast. Global community really needs it for prosperity promotion.

There are great interests in six advanced technologies: nano-technology, biobased technology, sensor technology, energy-based technology, high performance material-based technology, and fuel cell technology. During the past decades major progress in the synthesis, characterization, and applications of functional polymers has been accomplished along with the recent development of nanobioscience and environment technology. This monograph titled Advanced Functional Materials contains six chapters spanning from polymers to ceramics, sensor, and to fuel cell: high performance organic polymers, biodegradable organic polymers, inorganic polymers, ceramic composite formation, sensor, and fuel cell.