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The studies on advanced materials at sub-micron scales have become a popular subject in engineering sciences and technology development in the past decade. In general, experimental investigations at this scale are very difficult and may be unreliable. Therefore, analytical and computational modeling appears to be rather critical and important in such studies. The objective of this chapter is to review...