Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Preface

Chapter 1
Conductive Composites as Versatile Substrates for Modeling of Interfaces and Sensors
(Paulo Henrique Maciel Buzzetti, Grasielli Correa de Oliveira, André Luiz Maia Azevedo, Ricardo Cunha Michel, Eduardo Ariel Ponzio, and Felipe Silva Semaan, Grupo de Eletroquímica e Eletroanalítica, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Outeiro de São João Batista, Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, CEP, Brasil, and others)

Chapter 2
The use of Fiber Reinforced Polymers to Improve Load Carrying Capacity of Damaged Concrete
(Viviana Carolina Rougier, Mario Raul Escalante, Department of Civil Engineering, National Technological University, Fac. Reg. Concepción del Uruguay, Concepcion del Uruguay, Entre Rios- Argentina)

Chapter 3
Functionally Graded Materials in Dentistry
(Joana Mesquita-Guimarães, Bruno Henriques, Júlio César Matias Souza, Cláudia Ângela Maziero Volpato, Filipe Samuel Silva, Márcio Celso Fredel,Ceramic and Composite Materials Research Group (CERMAT), Department of Mechanical Engineering (EMC), Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), Campus Trindade, 88040-900, Florianópolis/SC, Brazil, and others)

Chapter 4
Electrochemical Synthesis and Characterization of Electroactive Copolymers Deriving from Five-Ring with Six-Ring Aromatic Compounds and their Perspectives for Cost-Effective Optoelectronic Applications : The System of 3-Octylthiophene with Biphenyl
(Johannis Simitzis, Sophia Karamanou, National Technical University of Athens, School of Chemical Engineering,
Department III, “Materials Science and Engineering”, Laboratory Unit “Advanced and Composite Materials”, Athens, Greece)

Chapter 5
Structural Health Monitoring of Composite Aircraft
(Ibrahim M. Alarifi, Abdulaziz Alharbi, Waseem S. Khan, and Ramazan Asmatulu, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Wichita State University, Wichita, KS, USA, and others)

Chapter 6
Semiconductor Nanomaterials for Water Splitting
(Abdulaziz R. Alharb,i Ibrahim M. Alarifi, Waseem S. Khan, and Ramazan Asmatulu, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Wichita State University, Wichita, KS, USA, and others)

Chapter 7
Dendrimer and its Role for the Advancement of Nanotechnology and Bioengineering
(Tanvir Arfin and Faruq Mohammad, Environmental Materials Division, CSIR-National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (CSIR-NEERI), Nehru Marg, Nagpur, India, and others)

Chapter 8
Parametric Identification of Nonlinear Model of Hydrogen Thermal Desorption from Structural Materials
(Yu.V. Zaika, E.K. Kostikova, Institute of Applied Mathematical Research, Karelian Research Centre, Russian Academy of Sciences, Petrozavodsk, Karelia, Russia)

Chapter 9
Testing 1 D Ternary Photonic Band Gap Material Structure for use in Temperature Unstable Environments: A Comment
(Anirudh Banerjee, Department of Electronics and Communication, Amity School of Engineering and Technology, Lucknow, Amity University, Uttar Pradesh, India)

Chapter 10
A Comparative Study of Effect of Temperature Variation on Transmission Properties of 1D Photonic Band Gap Material Structure and Random Multilayer Structure
(Anirudh Banerjee, Department of Electronics and Communication, Amity School of Engineering and Technology, Lucknow, Amity University, Uttar Pradesh, India)

Chapter 11
Altering Spectrum Tuning Capability in 1D Ternary Photonic Band Gap Material Structures
(Anirudh Banerjee, Department of Electronics and Communication, Amity School of Engineering and Technology, Lucknow, Amity University, Uttar Pradesh, India)

Chapter 12
Altering Temperature Sensitivity in 1D Ternary Photonic Band Gap Material Structures
(Anirudh Banerjee, Department of Electronics and Communication, Amity School of Engineering and Technology, Lucknow, Amity University, Uttar Pradesh, India)

Index