This book provides an in-depth understanding of the properties, characterization, and applications of advanced functional and composite materials for energy, electronics, biomedicine, and aerospace fields. Divided into four sections, it covers sustainable smart and composite materials, intelligent techniques for optimization of material properties, their characterization and processing, case studies based on modernization in processes and systems, sustainability-based approaches and novel strategies, and sustainability and Industry 4.0-based contents. Key HighlightsProvides smart materials and sustainability, novel product design, and materials implementationReviews molecular dynamics simulation techniquesIncludes Industry 4.0 and sustainability interventions in functional compositesDiscusses life cycle engineering and analysis in composite processingCovers microwave-assisted processing of compositesThis book is aimed at graduate students and researchers in materials sciences and metallurgy, mechanical and manufacturing engineering.