New Perspectives on Materials Design. - Modifications of Molecular Size and Structure During the Hydrolytic Polycondensation of Metal Alkoxides. - Design of Microstructures in Sol-Gel Processed Silicates. - Inorganic Macromolecules and the Search for New Electroactive and Structural Materials. - The Preceramic Polymer Route to Silicon-Containing Ceramics. - Synthesis of Ceramic Powders and Thin Films from Laser Heated Gases. - New Approaches to the Design of Materials Via Preparative Inorganic Chemistry. - Materials Design by Means of Discharge Plasmas. - Advanced Ceramic Materials and Processes. - Research on Hydrogenated Amorphous Silicon. - Structure and Optical Properties of Amorphous Semiconductors. - Surface Modification by Rapid Solidification Laser and Electron Beam Processing. - Materials-By-Design: Prospects and Promise. - Crystallographic Engineering. - Structure - Property Relationships in Metallic and Oxide Glasses. - Infrared and Raman Studies of Si-Chalcogenide Glasses. - Compound Index. Language: English