Preface

Advanced functional materials are used in sensors, health, concrete, textile, glasses, and pharmacy applications due to their high surface area and surfactant functional groups. Advanced functional materials with different morphologies help to adapt their application-specific properties. Researchers focus on effective platforms (reaction time, sensitivity, selectivity, stability, etc.) for different applications by varying morphological structures of advanced functional materials. Many types of advanced functional materials such as metal nanomaterials, metal/core shell nanomaterials, metal oxide semiconductors, carbon-based nanomaterials, graphene/graphene-based nanomaterials, and metal-organic frameworks have been investigated for many applications. Besides these, because biopolymers enhance homogeneous dispersion of inorganic nanoparticles into an organic matrix, they are used as stabilizers in the structure of advanced functional materials. Furthermore, in order to enhance the polymer strength, inorganic nanomaterials are used as additives. Biopolymers and additives in the same matrix play a critical role for agglomeration of the bio-nanocomposites. In recent years, due to their low cost, various morphologies, high surface area, electron transfer reactions, biodegradable bio-nanocomposites have attracted attention to the structure of advanced functional materials in much more applications.

The book *Advanced Functional Materials* has sixteen chapters that provide an overview of the detailed definition of preparation and applications of advanced functional materials. We sincerely thank our authors who have contributed with experience and knowledge to this book. Especially, our thanks go to the editorial team from IntechOpen Publishing for their assistance in preparing this book.

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**Chapter 8 93**

Advanced Functional Materials for Health **121**

**Chapter 9 123**

**Chapter 10 141**

**Chapter 11 167**

Advanced Functional Materials for Concrete and Ceramics **189**

**Chapter 12 191**

**Chapter 13 215**

Advanced Functional Materials for Textile **241**

**Chapter 14 243**

Advanced Functional Materials for Glasses **259**

**Chapter 15 261**

**Chapter 16 291**

A Novel MDD-Based BEM Model for Transient 3T Nonlinear

Self-Healing in Titanium Alloys: A Materials Science Perspective

Biomaterials for Drug Delivery: Sources, Classification, Synthesis,

*by Samson O. Adeosun, Margaret O. Ilomuanya, Oluwashina P. Gbenebor,* 

Characterization of Pharmaceutical Powders and Powdered Material *by Amjad Khan, Shabnam Nazir, Hamad S. Alyami and Aman Ullah*

Exploits, Advances and Challenges in Characterizing Self-Healing

*by Paul Sunday Nnamchi and Camillus Sunday Obayi*

SeDeM-ODT Expert System: A Solution to Challenges in

Self-Healing Concrete and Cementitious Materials

*by Camillus Sunday Obayi and Paul Sunday Nnamchi*

Tellurite Glass and Its Application in Lasers

*Xin Wang, Shunbin Wang and Elfed Lewis*

*by Chulsoo Woo, Bin Liang and Jonghyuk Oh*

*by Pengfei Wang, Shijie Jia, Xiaosong Lu, Yuxuan Jiang, Jibo Yu,* 

Global Trend of Glass Bonding for Appliance Industry Assemblies

*by Tanvir Qureshi and Abir Al-Tabbaa*

Thermal Stresses in FGA Smart Structures

*by Mohamed Abdelsabour Fahmy*

Processing, and Applications

*Modupeola O. Dada and Cletus C. Odili*

**Section 2**

**Section 3**

Materials

**Section 4**

**Section 5**

Smart E-Textile Materials *by Dilan Canan Çelikel*

**Nevin Taşaltın** Associate Professor, Faculty of Engineering and Science, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Institute of Science, Maltepe University, Turkey

Department of Renewable Energy Technologies and Management, Maltepe University, Turkey

> **Dr. Safaa Saud** Faculty of Information Sciences and Engineering, Management and Science University, Selangor, Malaysia

**Dr. Paul Sunday Nnamchi** Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria

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Section 1

Advanced Functional

Materials for Electronics

Section 1
