Collection of selected, peer reviewed papers from the international conference on advances in materials (icam 2014), december 13-14, 2014, shanghai, china. The 167 papers are grouped as follows: chapter 1: nanomaterials and nanotechnologies; chapter 2: thin films; chapter 3: metal-based materials, alloys and metallurgical technology; chapter 4: crystallography, chemical and cathode materials; chapter 5: polymers and composite materials; chapter 6: biomaterials and biotechnologies; chapter 7: materials and technologies in environmental engineering; chapter 8: building materials and technologies; chapter 9: research in area of applied materials; chapter 10: processing technologies and computational methods in area of materials science.
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