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