part Section 1. General Aspects of Combinatorial Materials Science -- chapter 1 Combinatorial Materials and Catalysts Development: Where Are We and How Far Can We Go? -- chapter 2 Expanding the Scope of Combinatorial Synthesis of Inorganic Solids: Application of the Split&Pool Principle for the Screening of Functional Materials -- chapter 3 Informatics-Based Optimization of Crystallographic Descriptors for Framework Structures -- chapter 4 Combinatorial Study of New Glasses -- chapter 5 A Combinatorial Method for Optimization of Materials for Gas-Sensitive Field-Effect Devices -- part Section 2. Catalysis: Development and Discovery -- chapter 6 Use of Combinatorial Heat Treatments to Accelerate the Commercialization of Materials for Use in Catalysis -- chapter 7 Infrared Thermography and High-Throughput Activity Techniques for Catalyst Evaluation for Hydrogen Generation from Methanol -- chapter 8 New Catalysts for the Carbonylation of Phenol: Discovery Using High-Throughput Screening and Leads Scale-Up -- chapter 9 Catalyst Preparation for Parallel Testing in Heterogeneous Catalysis -- chapter 10 Tailoring Heterogeneous Catalysts for Pollutant Combustion with High-Throughput Methods -- part Section 3. Development of Functional Polymers -- chapter 11 One-Dimensional Polymeric Formulated Materials Arrays: Fabrication, High-Throughput Performance Testing, and Applications -- chapter 12 A Combinatorial Approach to Rapid Structure Property Screening of UV-Curable Cycloaliphatic Epoxies -- chapter 13 Combinatorial Synthesis and Screening of Photochromic Dyes and Modified Conducting Polymers -- part Section 4. Energy-Related Materials Development -- chapter 14 High-Throughput Screening for Fuel Cell Technology -- chapter 15 High-Throughput Discovery of Battery Materials -- part Section 5. Electronic Materials Development -- chapter 16 Innovation in Magnetic Data Storage Using Physical Deposition and Combinatorial Methods -- chapter 17 High-Throughput Screening of Next Generation Memory Materials -- chapter 18 Combinatorial Ion Beam Synthesis of II–VI Compound Semiconductor Nanoclusters -- chapter 19 Preparation of Dielectric Thin-Film Libraries by Sol–Gel Techniques -- part Section 6. Optic Materials -- chapter 20 Combinatorial Fabrication and Screening of Organic Light-Emitting Device Arrays -- chapter 21 Combinatorial Approach to Advanced Luminescent Materials -- chapter 22 Combinatorial Screening and Optimization of Phosphors for Flat Panel Displays and Lightings -- chapter 23 Technology of PLD for Photodetector Materials.