Dr. Satoru Kaneko is a research scientist at the Kanagawa Industrial Technology Center in Kanagawa, Japan.Dr. Paolo Mele is an associate professor at Muroran Institute of Technology in the Research Center for Environmentally Friendly Materials Engineering in Muroran, Hokkaido, Japan. Dr. David Hui is a professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of New Orleans in New Orleans, Louisiana. Dr. Tetsuo Tsuchiya is a research scientist at National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and technology in Tsukuba, Japan. Dr. Katsuhisa Tanaka is a professor in Kyoto University’s Graduate School of Engineering’s Department of Material Chemistry in Kyoto, Japan. Dr. Masahiro Yoshimura is a professor at National Cheng Kung University’s Department of Materials Science and Engineering in Taiwan. Dr. Tamio Endo is a researcher at Sagamihara Surface Treatment Laboratory in Kamimizo, Kanagawa, Japan.

• Part I: GRAPHENE AND NANOCARBON MATERIALS.- Chapter1: The Synthesis and the Catalytic Properties of Graphene-based Composite Materials.- Chapter2: Optical characterization of graphene and its derivatives – an experimentalist’s perspective.- Chapter3: Submerged liquid plasma for the formation of nanostructured carbon.- Chapter4: Lab on a Graphene –Functionalized Graphene Transistor and Its Application for Biochemical Assay.- Chapter5: Production of single- and few-layer graphene from graphite.- Chapter6: Graphene-based coatings for dental implant surface modification.- Part II: CARBON COMPOSITES AND THIN FILMS.- Chapter7: Effect of CNT on the Mechanical Properties of Composite Materials and Structures.- Chapter8: Energy absorption capability of hybrid fibers reinforced composite tubes.- Chapter9: Graphene Rubber Nanocomposites: Preparation, Structure and Properties.- Chapter10: Effects of Graphene and Graphite on Properties of Highly Filled Polybenzoxazine Bipolar Plate for Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell: A Comparative Study.- Chapter11: Electrical Properties of Amorphous Carbon Nitride Thin Films for Pressure Sensor applications.- Part III: ORGANIC SYNTHESIS AND PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY.- Chapter12: Combination of cross-coupling and metal carbene transformations for the development of new multicomponent reactions.- Chapter13: Synthetic molecular springs: Stretched and contracted helices with their interconversions of mono-substituted polyacetylenes prepared with a rhodium complex catalyst.- Chapter14: The Spin Coupling in the Polyaromatic Hydrocarbons and Carbon-based Materials.- Chapter15: Electrocatalytic Hydrogen Production Properties of Polyaniline doped with Metal Organic Frameworks.- Chapter16: Plasma Bonding of Plastic Films.- Part IV: CHARACTERIZATION TOOL.- Chapter17: Atomic Force Microscopy for Characterizing Nanocomposites.