This book gathers the proceedings of the plenary sessions, invited lectures, and papers presented at the International Conference on Recent Trends in Materials Science and Applications (ICRTMSA-2016). It also features revealing presentations on various aspects of Materials Science, such as nanomaterials, photonic crystal fibers, quantum dots, thin film techniques, crystal growth, spectroscopic procedures, fabrication and characterisation of new materials / compounds with enhanced features, and potential applications in nonlinear optical and electro-optic devices, solar cell device, chemical sensing, biomedical imaging, diagnosis and treatment of cancer, energy storage device etc. This book will be of great interest to beginning and seasoned researchers alike.

Spectroscopic investigation on rGO:ZnO composites nanostructures.- Synthesis and characterization of CuInSe2 nanoparticles by hydrothermal method.- Hierarchical ZSM-5 zeolite nanosurfaces with high porosity - Structural, morphological and textural investigations.- Structural, dielectric and gas sensing properties of Mn-Ni ferrite nanoparticles.- Synthesis and Characterization of Cobalt ferrite (CoFe2O4) nanoparticles prepared by hydrothermal method.- Synthesis, structural, optical and dielectric properties of cadmium sulfide nanoparticles as photocathode for a solar cell.