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This volume represents the proceedings of the Third International Conference on Composite Interfaces (ICCI-III). The aim of the conference was to promote understanding of the structure and role of composite interfaces. With the growth of composite interface structures, the research direction changes from characterization and understanding of interfacial structure to controlling this structure. For this reason the conference was substitled, "Controlled Interphase Structure". The rather unfamiliar term, "interphases" is used to emphasize the interfacial region whose properties are different to the bulk. The importance of the interphase to the mechano-chemical properties has been widely recognised among composites researchers in recent years. These proceedings will be of special interest to materials scientists working in the ceramics, metallurgy, polymers and applied physics fields.