chapter 1 Introduction / chapter 2 Multiple-Sample Concept: The Forerunner of Combinatorial Materials Science / chapter 3 The Continuous Composition Spread Approach / chapter 4 Combinatorial Approach to Ferroelectric/Dielectric Materials / chapter 5 Parallel Synthesis of Artificially Designed Lattices and Devices / chapter 6 Combinatorial Synthesis of Display Phosphors / chapter 7 Combinatorial Ion Synthesis and Ion Beam Analysis of Materials Libraries / chapter 8 Mapping of Physical Properties: Composition Phase Diagrams of Complex Materials Systems Using Continuous Composition Materials Chips -- chapter 9 Temperature-Dependent Materials Research with Micromachined Array Platforms -- chapter 10 X-Ray Techniques for Characterization of Combinatorial Materials Libraries / chapter 11 High-Throughput Screening of Electrical Impedance of Functional Materials by Evanescent Microwave Probe -- chapter 12 Combinatorial Computational Chemistry Approach in the Design of New Catalysts and Functional Materials -- chapter 13 Computational Informatics: Guided Discovery for Combinatorial Experiments