Meet the editors

Associate Professor Nevin Taşaltın has been working at Maltepe University, Turkey since 2018. She received her MSc. and PhD. degrees in Physics from Marmara University and Gebze Technical University between 2005 and 2010. She worked as a researcher at TUBITAK Marmara Research Center between 2003 and 2006. She worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Koç University between 2010 and 2012. She worked as a senior research-

er at TUBITAK Marmara Research Center between 2012 and 2018. She has research and teaching experience in nanomaterials, sensors, photovoltaics, and supercapacitors. She has been leading and working on several research projects funded by TUBITAK and the Republic of Turkey Energy Market Regulatory Authority. She has several research articles, book chapters, and patents.

Paul Nnamchi joined the Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering ESUT in 2019. He obtained his PhD, Meng, and B.Eng. at Sheffield University, ESUT, Technical University of Delft in the Netherlands (TUDelft) and Enugu State University of Science and Technology, Enugu-Nigeria respectively. Paul has held scholarly appointments at Northumbria University, Sheffield University, Max Planck's Institute for Iron and Steel

Research, Dusseldorf, Germany, The Netherlands Institute for Metals Research (NIMR) at TU-Delft with interdisciplinary research experience in new and emerging metallic materials: bulk metallic glasses, high entropy alloys, self-healing materials, biomaterials designs, and microstructure physics, Dr. Paul Nnamchi is responsible for the metallurgical and materials academic postgraduate programs including planning and implementation of the annual management plan. He is responsible for supervising a research group and for teaching undergraduate and postgraduate students in material science and engineering projects. His research group is interested in the development of new green materials for construction and high value manufacturing. His manufacturing research is conducted on the near-industrial scale and much of it is focused on detailed investigations of novel manufacturing routes based on the use of locally available raw materials and is conducted in close collaboration with industry. Dr. Paul Nnamchi is a Fellow of the Institute of Materials, Metals, Mining (IOM3), United Kingdom, He is a Chartered Engineer (UK), Chartered Scientist (UK), and an associate professor in the Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering. He has developed various research subjects such as: design and integrity characterization of biomaterial alloys; development of bio-inspired structural components; development of rapid manufacturing technologies for building structures. Dr. Nnamchi has presented his research at many international conferences and symposiums. He served as a member of Professional Member African Materials Society, MRS (2009), member of International Bio Metals Association (2015), Council for Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria COREN (2011), and member of Institute of Physics UK (2011).

Dr. Saud is a Postdoctoral and Ph.D. graduate in Mechanical/ Biomaterials Engineering from the Universiti Teknologi Malaysia and his research focuses on the design and development of novel biomaterials, "Shape Memory Alloys", and their related applications. Currently, he is working as a program coordinator at the Management and Science University, Shah Alam, Malaysia. Dr. Saud is registered as a professional engineer in a number of

Contents

**Section 1**

*and Ayben Kilislioğlu*

Alloy MEMS Actuators *by Cory R. Knick*

*by Cory R. Knick*

*and Asghari Maqsood*

Alloy Thin Film Phase Change

Cadmium Chalcogenide Clusters

*by Chi-Ang Tseng and Chuan-Pei Lee*

*by Wen-Chia Wu, Chung-Sung Yang and Yan Xu*

**Preface XI**

Advanced Functional Materials for Electronics **1**

**Chapter 1 3**

**Chapter 2 13**

**Chapter 3 25**

**Chapter 4 39**

**Chapter 5 51**

**Chapter 6 67**

**Chapter 7 77**

A Novel Electrochemical Sensor for the Detection of Reactive

Fabrication and Characterization of Nanoscale Shape Memory

Optimization of MEMS Actuator Driven by Shape Memory

Advanced Carbon Functional Materials for Superior Energy Storage *by Mujtaba Ikram, Sana Arbab, Huma Anwar, Arsalan Nadeem, Sidra Baber, Abdullah Khan Durrani, Muhammad Ikram, Muhammad Aamir Iqbal, Muhammad Umer Farooq* 

Progress, Challenges and Opportunities in Divalent Transition Metal-Doped Cobalt Ferrites Nanoparticles Applications

*by Oana Cadar, Thomas Dippong, Marin Senila and Erika-Andrea Levei*

Twist Tetrahedral-Tilting Structure Built from Photoluminescent

Transition Metal Chalcogenides for the Electrocatalysis of Water

*by Rifat Kolatoğlu, Enes Aydın, Mehtap Demir, Ahmet Yıldız, Selcan Karakuş, Elif Tüzün, Nuray Beköz Üllen, Nevin Taşaltın* 

Red Dye to Determine Water Quality

engineering associations and societies and has more than 10 years' experience in materials engineering, manufacturing, and design. He is the author of more than 90 research articles published in well-known and highly impacted journals. He has also been awarded with a number of gold and bronze medals in many innovations and innovative national and international engineering and technology exhibitions. He is also an editor and reviewer in several well-known journals and publishers.
