Smart Materials for Energy, Communications and Security

Materials, Transmission, Treatment and Storage of Information.- Multiferroic and Magnetoelectric Materials for Spintronics.- Large Area Nb Nanolayers with Advanced Superconducting Properties as a Base for Superconducting Spintronics.- Amorphous Chalcogenide Materials with Smart Memory.- Magnetic Refrigeration: Application to the Electron Doped Manganites.- Towards Electrochromic Devices Active in the IR Region.- Nitride Semiconductors Investigated at a Nanoscale.- Prospective Terahertz Applications of Carbon Nanotubes.- Energy Related Materials.- Smart Materials and Concepts for Photovoltaics: Dye Sensitized Solar Cells.- Magnetotransport Properties of Copper Ternaries: New Solar Cells Materials.- Structural and Electrical Properties of Nano-Crystalline LiCoO2 Cathode Material Synthesized by a Simplified Combustion Method.- Ionic Transport Behavior in Na2SO4-Li2O-MoO3-P2O5 Glassy System.- Piezo- and Electro-Active Materials.- Electrical Conduction and Dielectric Properties in Piezoelectric Fibre Composites.- New Method for Preparation of Polycrystalline Langasite for Gas Sensors: Structural Studies.- Dielectric Anomalies and Relaxation Behavior in Hydrothermally Processed PLZT Ferroelectric Ceramics.- 180° Ferroelectric Domains in Thin Films and Superlattices.- Other Functional Materials.- Clays and Clay Minerals in Western High Atlas: Characterization, Geological Significance and Industrial Uses.- TEM Analysis Of Advanced Devices For Electronics Or Spintronics: From Structure To Properties.- Microstructural and Mechanical Properties of Copper Processed by Equal Channel Angular Extrusion.