this volume includes papers from the second international conference on characterization and control of interfaces for high quality advanced materials, and joining technology for new metallic glasses and inorganic materials (iccci2006) in kurashiki, japan, 2006. interfaces are critically important to a broad spectrum of materials and technologies. this proceedings of iccci 2006 features 71 peerreviewed papers on interface characterization and control technology for materials synthesis, powder processing, composite processing, joining, and to control airborne particulates.