This book covers a wide range of lectures given at the Short Summer Course cel ebrated at La Laguna University about the new trends in the modern character ization methods: chemical, microscopies, thermal, X-ray, resonance and nuclear methos for ceramics, glasses and related materials. This book also looks also at the zeolite thermal characterization methods as well as the new approaches in new microscopies for the investigation of surfaces in materials. Nowadays is generally accepted in the scientific community that characteri zation methods must be used in research from a complementary...