This book is an excellent introduction to materials processing for students, researchers, and newcomers to the field. It covers a combination of fundamentals and applications of materials science and engineering, and provides students with comprehensive knowledge supported by solved examples and problems.

Chapter 1 is an introduction to the field of materials processing and provides an overview of metals, ceramics, and polymers. Chapter 2 deals with the preparation, formulation, and characterization of the starting materials for processing. Chapter 3 details the fundamentals and processing of converting melt to solids; heat transfer through the melting process; solidification; and different types of casting and post-casting processes for metals and glasses. The chapter also includes fundamentals and theoretical background of the extrusion and injection molding processes. Chapter 4 describes the solid deformation processes of metals, polymers, and ceramics, such as deformation under uniaxial tension, deformation with friction, wire drawing, direct extrusion, indirect extrusion, impact extrusion, forging, rolling, bending, thermoforming, and superplastic forming processes.

Chapter 5 covers the fabrication, necessary characterization and investigation of different types of powders, compaction under cold or hot conditions, the fundamentals of solid-state sintering, and the full densification process by cold and hot isostatic pressing. Chapter 6 explains the dispersion and stability of colloidal solutions, the curing of liquid monomers, the different types of shape casting of ceramics and polymers, extrusion, and powder injection molding of ceramics and polymers. The last chapter describes the thermodynamics of vapor processes, thin-film formation, epitaxial growth of single crystals, evaporation of metals and their alloys, the different types of sputtering techniques, and chemical vapor deposition processes.

Overall, this book will serve as an important addition to the libraries of those interested in materials processing and will stimulate a new generation of materials processing techniques.

Reviewer: Walid M. Daoush of Helwan University, Egypt.