Collection of selected, peer reviewed papers from the 12th IUMRS International Conference on Advanced Materials (IUMRS-ICAM 2013), September 22 -28, 2013, Qingdao, China. The 110 papers cover the current knowhow in: Nano-Scale Materials; Amorphous Materials; Advanced Fibers and Nano-Composites; Advanced Materials Processing; Surface Coating and Technology; Materials Modeling and Simulation; Materials Characterization and Evolution.