This volume presents the various categories of high performance materials and their composites and provides up-to-date synthesis details, properties, characterization, and applications for such systems to give readers and users better information to select the required material.

The volume provides the following features:

? Includes a wide range of high performance and engineering materials

? Details the synthesis and properties of each of new materials

? Presents practical industrial applications

? Contains material written by some of the world?s most well-known and respected experts in the field