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