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Functional materials, also quite often called smart or advanced materials, offer new combinations of physical properties (e.g. electrical, optical or magnetic) that make them attractive for usage in modern high-tech industries like telecommunications or microelectronics. In this book the fundamentals of functional materials from all classes of materials - ceramics, polymers, metals and alloys - are discussed as well as their applications in information technology, fuel cells, systems for renewable energy and sensors and actuators are discussed.