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Sam Zhang, FRSC, FTFS, FIoMMM, was born and brought up in the famous "City of Mountains" Chongqing, China. He received his Bachelor of Engineering in Materials in 1982 from Northeastern University (Shenyang, China), Master of Engineering in Materials in 1984 from Iron and Steel Research Institute (Beijing, China) and PhD degree in Ceramics in 1991 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA. He was a tenured full professor (since 2006) at the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University Singapore. In January 2018, he joined the School of Materials and Energy, and served as the founding director of the Centre for Advanced Thin Films and Devices, Southwest University, China. In 2023, he joined the School of Aeronautics, Harbin Institute of Technology (HIT) as Chair Professor and also served in HIT Zhengzhou Advanced Research Institute.

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0. Front Matter. PART I. Emerging Materials. 1. Elastic Ceramic Aerogels: Thermal Insulation Materials for Extreme Conditions. 2. Laser Precision Engineering of Space-Grade Materials. 3. Composite Structural Supercapacitors for Astronautical Applications. 4. Solid Oxide Electrolyte Materials for Solid-State Batteries. 5. Piezochromism and Pressure-Induced Emission in Metal Halide Perovskites for Astronautical Application. 6. Microscopic Mechanism for Electronic Energy Loss of Energetic Ions in Solids. 7. Construction of a Lunar Base Using In-Situ Resources. PART II. Future Technologies. 8. The First Human Lunar Micro-Ecosystem. 9. Artificial Intelligence as a Disruptive Force in Accelerating the Design and Development of High-Entropy Materials for Next-Generation Aerospace and Space Applications.