Advanced Magnetic and OpticalMaterials offers detailed up-to-date chapters on the functional optical and magnetic materials, engineering of quantum structures, high-tech magnets, characterization and new applications.  It brings together innovative methodologies and strategies adopted in the research and development of the subject and all the contributors are established specialists in the research area. The 14 chapters are organized in two parts: Part 1: Magnetic Materials Magnetic Heterostructures and superconducting orderMagnetic Antiresonance in nanocompositesMagnetic bioactive glass-ceramics for bone healing and hyperthermic treatment of solid tumorsMagnetic iron oxide nanoparticlesMagnetic nanomaterial-based anticancer therapyTheoretical study of strained carbon-based nanobelts: Structural, energetical, electronic, and magnetic propertiesRoom temperature molecular magnets – Modeling and applications Part 2: Optical Materials Advances and future of white LED phosphors for solid-state lightingDesign of luminescent materials with “Turn-on/off” response for anions and cationsRecent advancements in luminescent materials and their potential applicationsStrongly confined quantum dots: Emission limiting, photonic doping, and magneto-optical effectsMicrostructure characterization of some quantum dots synthesized by mechanical alloyingAdvances in functional luminescent materials and phosphorsDevelopment in organic light emitting materials and their potential applications