This collection contains selected papers presented at the Chinese Materials Conference 2017 (CMC 2017, Yinchuan City, Ningxia, China, July 06-12, 2017) and proposes to readers the last research results in area of modern structural and functional materials and technologies of their processing in the modern mechanical engineering, materials in the electronics, energy storage devices and alternative energy production, advanced building materials, materials and technologies in the environmental engineering and practice of the waste recycling. We hope this collection will be useful for the wide range of engineers and researchers in their activity.