These proceedings feature lectures, short oral communications and poster presentations identifying and exploring major new trends in contemporary materials sciences, in particular electronic and optoelectronic materials for the future. Various aspects of preparative techniques, structural analysis, physical, physicochemical and chemical properties and device applications of new amorphous, polycrystalline, crystalline semiconductors, magnetic media, polymetric thin films, ferroelectrics and Langmuire Blodjet films are treated in detail.