Smart Materials for Energy, Communications and Security : Springer : 9781402087950 : 1402087950 : 29 Jul 2008 : Rapid evolution of trade, cultural and human relations provides the qualitative and quantitative enhancement of international collaborations, linking the countries with different economical and technological level. Delocalization of High-Tech industry inevitably leads to development of the material science and engineering researches in emergent countries, requiring transfer of know-how, restructuration of basic research and educational networks. This book presents the contributions of participants of the Advanced Research Workshop ?Smart Materials for Energy, Communications and Security? (ARW SMECS; www.smecs.ferroix.net), organized in December 2007 in Marrakech in frame of the ?NATO - Science for Peace? program. The objective of this event was the attempt to overview several hot topics of material physics related with problems of modern society: transformation and storage of