chapter 1 Residual Stress in Thin Films -- chapter 2 Intelligent Synthesis of Smart Ceramic Materials -- chapter 3 Functionally Graded Polymer Blend -- chapter 4 Structural Application of Smart Materials -- chapter 5 Composite Systems Modeling-Adaptive Structures: Modeling and Applications and Hybrid Composites -- chapter 6 Ferromagnetic Shape Memory Alloy Actuators -- chapter 7 Aircraft Applications of Smart Structures -- chapter 8 Smart Battery Materials -- chapter 9 Piezoelectric and Electrostrictive Ceramics Transducers and Actuators -- chapter 10 Chitosan-Based Gels and Hydrogels -- chapter 11 Films, Coatings, Adhesives, Polymers, and Thermoelectric Materials -- chapter 12 Cure and Health Monitoring -- chapter 13 Drug Delivery Systems -- chapter 14 Fiber Optic Systems: Optical Fiber Sensor Technology and Windows -- chapter 15 Flip-Chip Underfill: Materials, Process, and Reliability -- chapter 16 Dielectric Cure Monitoring of Polymers, Coposites, and Coatings: Synthesis, Cure, Fabrication, and Aging -- chapter 17 Magnetorheological Fluids -- chapter 18 Intelligent Processing of Materials -- chapter 19 Magnets, Magnetic, and Magnetostrictive Materials -- chapter 20 Shape-Memory Alloys and Effects: Types, Functions, Modeling, and Applications -- chapter 21 Current Developments in Electrorheological Materials -- chapter 22 Carbon Microtubes and Conical Carbon Nanotubes -- chapter 23 -- chapter 24 Smart Polymers for Biotechnology and Elastomers -- chapter 25 Vibration Control for Smart Structures -- chapter 26 Action Truss Structures -- chapter 27 Application of Smart Materials and Smart Structures to the Study of Aquatic Animals -- chapter 28 Molecular Imprinting Technology -- chapter 29 Biomedical Sensing -- chapter 30 Intelligent Chemical Indicators -- chapter 31 Piezoelectric Polymer PVDF Microactuators -- chapter 32 Ultrasonic Nondestructive Testing and Materials Characterization -- chapter 33 Lipid Membranes on Highly Ordered Porous Alumina Substrates.