This book includes selected, peer-reviewed contributions from the 2018 International Conference on "Physics and Mechanics of New Materials and Their Applications", PHENMA 2018, held in Busan, South Korea, 9-11 August 2018. Focusing on manufacturing techniques, physics, mechanics, and applications of modern materials with special properties, it covers a broad spectrum of nanomaterials and structures, ferroelectrics and ferromagnetics, and other advanced materials and composites. The authors discuss approaches and methods in nanotechnology; newly developed, environmentally friendly piezoelectric techniques; and physical and mechanical studies of the microstructural and other properties of materials. Further, the book presents a range of original theoretical, experimental and computational methods and their application in the solution of various technological, mechanical and physical problems. Moreover, it highlights modern devices demonstrating high accuracy, longevity and the ability to operate over wide temperature and pressure ranges or in aggressive media. The developed devices show improved characteristics due to the use of advanced materials and composites, opening new horizons in the investigation of a variety of physical and mechanical processes and phenomena.

DrSc Ivan A. Parinov received the MSc in Mechanics from the Rostov State University, Mechanics and Mathematics Department in 1978 (Rostov-on-Don, Russia), the PhD in Physics and Mathematics from the Rostov State University in 1990 and the DrSc in Techniques from the South-Russian State Technical University in 2008. He is Corresponding Member of Russian Engineering Academy (2014) He is working in the I. I. Vorovich Mathematics, Mechanics and Computer Sciences Institute of the Southern Federal University (former Rostov State University) from 1978. Today, he is Chief Research Fellow. He has head in 1993-2018 the Research Grants and Programs from Soros Foundation, Collaboration for Basic Science and Education (COBASE, USA), Russian Foundation for Basic Research (13 grants), Russian Ministry for Science and Education (9 grants and scientific proposals). He has published above 300 scientific-technical publications among them 27 monographs (in particular, 8 books published with Springer and 13 books with Nova Science Publishers), additionally 1 book are in press. He has 14 Russian and Soviet patents and 4 certificates on Russian state registration of programs for computer. His developments were awarded 30 gold medals and special awards of European exhibitions. DrSc Ivan A. Parinov is reviewer of Zentralblatt fur Mathematik (Germany) and Mathematical Reviews (USA) from 1994 (above 450 reviews), review papers of journal SOP Transactions on Theoretical Physics (Scientific Online Publishing) from 2013. He was INTAS expert (2004), FP-7 expert (2010), ERA.NET RUS expert (2011, 2015) and he is the Russian Academy of Science expert (from 2016), the Russian Foundation for Basic Research expert (from 2017) and Russian Federal expert of scientific-technical area (2012-2021). He is winner of competition of the Russian Department of Education and Science (2014-2016 and 2017-2019) on direction "Organization of Fulfillment of the Scientific Researches". DrSc Ivan A. Parinov is Active Member of the New York Academy of Sciences (1994), member of the American Mathematical Society (from 1996), the European Mathematical Society (from 1998) and The Indian Structural Integrity Society (from 2016). He has honorary title "Honorary Member of All-Russian Society of Inventors and Rationalizers" (2008). His research interests include R&D of novel materials and composites (in particular, high-temperature superconductors and ferro-piezoelectrics), fracture mechanics and strength physics, acoustic emission, optics, mathematical modeling, different applications of advanced materials and composites.

Dr. Shun-Hsyung Chang received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from National Sun-Yat Sen University, Taiwan, in 1990. Afterwards, he served as an associate professor and has been a professor since 1997 in the Department of Electrical Engineering at National Taiwan Ocean University, Keelung, Taiwan, where he was the chairman 1998 2003. He also had served as the Vice President of National Kaohsiung Marine University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, during 2003 2006. He is a professor in the Department of Microelectronic Engineering at this university presently. He was head of 3 grants in 2010-2017 on joint program of the Ministry of Science and Technology of Taiwan and the Russian Foundation for Basic Research. He has published over 250 scientific-technical publication, among them 11 monographs (3 books with Springer). His outstanding performance in research brought him great honor. In 1984, he was granted The Creative Youth prize by the Ministry of Education. He received the Long-Term Paper Award, organized by Acer Incorporated, in 1994, 1996 and 1998. He and his graduate students won the Third Prize of Graduate Team in TI-Taiwan 1994 DSP Design Championship. He also obtained the Distinguished Award in the contest of Special Topic of Communication System in graduate division held by the Ministry of Education in 2000. He contributes greatly in editorship. He was the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Marine Science and Technology 1998 2001, of which he is an editor at present. He is currently the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Ocean and Underwater Technology 2008-2017. His research interests include electrical engineering; electronics and communication engineering; signal, image, video and array processing; underwater and acoustic communication; underwater acoustics; Kalman filtering and detection.

Professor Yun-Hae Kim graduated from Department of Marine Engineering, Korea Maritime and Ocean University in 1983 (B.E.) and in 1987 (M.E.). Moreover, he graduated from Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Tokushima, Japan (M.E.) in 1990. He received PhD degree from Kyushu University in Mechanical Engineering, Japan by 1993. He worked at NIST, USA, as a visiting professor in 1997-1998, and his studies focused on the fabrication and evaluation of composite materials. He worked as research assistant (1985-1987) at Korea Maritime and Ocean University. He published over 150 papers in international and national journals. He joined over 60 conferences and symposia in international and national level as general speaker, invited speaker or keynote speaker. He founded two international conferences, namely, Asian Conference on Engineering Education (ACEE, 2009) and Asian Conference on Campus Sustainability (ACCS, 2015). He was a president of Korea Association of Green Campus Initiatives (KAGCI). He was the ex-Acting president of Korea Maritime and Ocean University, ex-Dean of Student Affairs and ex-Dean of Academic Affairs from 2014 to 2016. He was a conference chair of the Advanced Materials Development and Performance (AMDP2014). At that time, over 400 delegates participated in this conference. He was the editor of SCI journal, International Journal of Modern Physics B. Now, he is working as the Editor-in-Chiefs of the Journal of Ocean Engineering and Technology for 9 years and Nano Hybrids Composites. In particular, he joined in last five years (2013 - 2017) over 20 conferences as Keynote Speaker and Conference Co-Chairs. He is working as Director of Idea Factory Center at KMOU. He received many awards: Ministry of Science and Technology (Jang Young Sil Best Award, Korea), Ministry of Science and Technology, Korea, Distinguished Professor Award, The Korean Society of Engineering Education, Distinguished Service Medal, The Korean Society of Engineering Education, Ministry of Education, Science and Technology　(Ministry Award, Engineering Education Innovation Field), Ministry of Education, Science and Technology, Korea, Best Paper Award, ICPNS, Seattle, USA. His research interests include R&D of novel materials and composites based on polymer materials (in particular, environmental characteristics), fracture mechanics and strength evaluations, ocean applications of advanced materials and composites.