Presents technologies and key concepts to produce suitable smart materials and intelligent structures for sensing, information and communication technology, biomedical applications (drug delivery, hyperthermia therapy), self-healing, flexible memories and construction technologies. Novel developments of environmental friendly, cost-effective and scalable production processes are discussed by experts in the field.

• Preface
• Contents
• List of contributing authors
• 1 New class of graphene-based devices for the next generation of nonvolatile memories
• 2 Plasma surface activation and functionalization of carbon-based materials
• 3 Modeling carbon-based smart materials
• 4 Carbon nanotube-based materials for space applications
• 5 Molecular dynamics simulations of graphene-based polymer nanocomposites
• 6 Carbon from waste source for Li-ion battery
• Index