Meet the editor

Prof. Dipti Sahu is currently an associate professor of physics in the Department of Natural and Applied Sciences at the Namibia University of Science and Technology. He received his doctoral degree in Physics from the Institute of Materials Science, Utkal University, India. After his PhD, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher, visiting scientist, and faculty in several institutions such as the National Taiwan University, National Cheng Kung

University (Taiwan), and the University of Witwatersrand (South Africa). His research focus is on multifunctional materials, including nanomaterials, ceramics, composites, spintronics, magnetic materials, and the application of functional materials in devices. He has published more than 85 international peer-reviewed journal articles, two book chapters, and more than 100 research articles in conference proceedings and meetings.

Contents

**Section 1**

**Section 2**

Quantum Wells

*and Farah Nabilah Shafiee*

Functional 3D Printed Polymeric Materials *by Denisse Ortiz-Acosta and Tanya Moore*

Interlayer Surface Modification

Self-Healing Polymer Composites for Structural Application *by Jeetendra Kumar Banshiwal and Durgesh Nath Tripathi*

Janus Nanosheets Derived from K4Nb6O17·3H2O *via* Regioselective

*by Ryoko Suzuki, Mitsuhito Sudo, Megumi Hirano, Naokazu Idota,* 

*Masashi Kunitake, Taisei Nishimi and Yoshiyuki Sugahara*

*by Sabah M. Abdelbasir and Ahmed Esmail Shalan*

of Polycrystalline Holmium and Yttrium Manganite *by Nor Hapishah Abdullah, Raba'ah Syahidah Azis, Muhammad Syazwan Mustaffa, Mohd Nizar Hamidon* 

*by Jiyong Fu, Wei Wang and Minghua Zhang*

**Preface III**

Functional Polymeric Materials **1**

**Chapter 1 3**

**Chapter 2 19**

**Chapter 3 41**

Functional Magnetic Nanomaterials **61**

**Chapter 4 63**

**Chapter 5 79**

**Chapter 6 99** Evolution of Nanometer-to- Micrometer Grain Size in Multiferroic Properties

Intriguing Properties and Applications of Functional Magnetic Materials

Control of Spin-Orbit Interaction in Conventional Semiconductor
