**Meet the editor**

Mohammad Asaduzzaman Chowdhury is a professor of mechanical engineering at Dhaka University of Engineering and Technology, Gazipur, Bangladesh. His research interests are engineering tribology, surface engineering, coating technology, polymer and composite materials, metals and alloys, erosive wear of different materials, material fabrication, characterization of ma-

terials, self-energy generating materials, atomic transfer mechanisms, etc. Currently, he is working as an editorial board member of a large number of international reputed journals, and as an editor and reviewer of many ISI and Scopus Indexed international journals and books. He has also published many research and review papers in refereed international journals and conference proceedings. He is also working as a consultant, advisor, and expert member of many government and autonomous organizations. His teaching and research experience covers 20 years. He is involved with different cultural and social activities, and is engaged in writing articles, stories, lyrics, and poems in different newspapers and relevant media.

Contents

**Preface VII**

Ann Zammit

**Metallic Alloys 45**

and Carmen Nejneru

Chapter 1 **Synthesis and Nonlinear Studies on Selected Organic Compounds in Nanostructured Thin Films 1** Ludmila-Otilia Cinteza and Maria Marinescu

Chapter 2 **Shot Peening of Austempered Ductile Iron 25**

Chapter 3 **Advanced Electro-Spark Deposition Process on**

**Styrene-Butadiene Rubber 89** Yiran Fan and Geoff D. Fowler

**Bioactive Eutectic Glasses 105** Daniel Sola and José I. Peña

**Recovery of Precious Metals 127**

Roto Roto

Alexander R. Cholach

Petrică Vizureanu, Manuela-Cristina Perju, Dragoş-Cristian Achiţei

Chapter 4 **Surface Manufacturing of Materials by High Energy Fluxes 69** Stefan Valkov, Maria Ormanova and Peter Petrov

Chapter 5 **The Potential of Pyrolytic Biomass as a Sustainable Biofiller for**

Chapter 6 **Ultrafast Laser Inscription of Buried Waveguides in W-TCP**

Chapter 7 **Surface Modification of Fe3O4 as Magnetic Adsorbents for**

Chapter 8 **Hidden Resources of Coordinated XPS and DFT Studies 147**
