Recent Trends in Materials: Select Proceedings of ICTMIM 2022 (Springer Proceedings in Materials, 18)

This book presents the select proceedings of 4^th International Conference on Trends in Material Science and Inventive Materials (ICTMIM 2022). Various topics covered in this book are nanotechnology in materials science, green and sustainable materials, semiconductor & electronic materials and devices, bio electronic materials and sensors, thin films, materials surface and interfaces, modern electronic materials, multilayered structures and composite materials, quantum-sized structures and nanocrystals, electronic biosensors, MEMS and sensors, light emitting materials, nanomaterials, opto-electronic materials, microwave and antenna, nanostructure fabrication and self-assembly, self-healable and stretchable configurations, data-driven materials design, advanced charge transfer and suitable interfaces, metallization and superconductivity. Given the contents, the book will be useful for students, researchers and professionals working in the area of material science and engineering.

Dr. K. Geetha is currently Professor, Dean- Academics and Research in JCT college of Engineering and Technology, Tamil Nadu, India. She a rich experience of teaching and administration for the past 20 years. Her research guidance includes 14 Ph.D. scholars for their doctoral degree. Her research areas include artificial intelligence, optimization techniques, and medical image processing. She has published articles in reputed journals in her area of specialization. She is passionate about continuous teaching-learning processes and involved in research related to student-centric learning methodologies. In 2020 and 2021, she served as the conference chair of the IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Smart Systems and the Springer International Conference on Inventive Systems and Control.

Dr. Francisco M. Gonzalez-Longatt is currently a full professor in electrical power engineering and Founder and leader of the DIgEnSys-Lab (Digital Energy Systems Laboratory) at the Department of Electrical Engineering, Information Technology and Cybernetics, University of South-Eastern Norway, Norway. He is a former Lecturer in Electrical Power System at Electrical Power System in School of Electronic, Electrical and Systems Engineering at Loughborough University (2013-2019).  He is Vice-President of Venezuelan Wind Energy Association, Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (UK), Senior Member of the IEEE, member of The Institution of Engineering and Technology - The IET (UK) and member of International Council on Large Electric Systems -CIGRE. His research interest includes innovative (operation/control) schemes to optimise the performance of future energy systems.

Dr. Hui-Ming Wee is the Associate Dean, Chaplain and Distinguished Professor in Chung Yuan Christian University. He has received an excellent research award from the Taiwan Ministry of Science & Technology, an excellent life researcher award fromCYCU and the Medal for Distinguished Industrial Engineer Award. He has published more than 400 papers in refereed journals, international conferences and book chapters. His papers were cited over 3275 times (Scopus) with h-index: 32. He has co-edited six books and holds two patents; was keynote speaker to a number of international conferences, Senior Member for Asian Council of Science Editors (ACSE), Board of Directors for International Engineering and Technology Institute (IETI) and Editor/editorial board member for a number of international journals.