Engineering applications of polymers and composites

The remarkable properties of silk fibres have gained them a prominent place in the field of technical textiles.

Databook of Plasticizers, Second Edition, contains data on the most important plasticizers in use today, including over 375 generic and commercial plasticizers.

This brief explores polysaccharides, the most abundant family of naturally occurring polymers, and explains how they have gained considerable attention in recent decades as a source of innovative bio-based materials.

Woven Terry Fabrics: Manufacturing and Quality Management encompasses all aspects of terry fabric production, from raw material choice and weave design to technological developments, dyeing, and quality evaluation.

This thesis makes significant advances in the design of electrolytes and interfaces in electrochemical cells that utilize reactive metals as anodes.

Novel Fire Retardant Polymers and Composite Materials reviews the latest scientific developments and technological advances in the design and manufacture of fire retardant polymers and composite materials.

This edited volume brings together the state of the art in polymer nanocomposite theory and modeling, creating a roadmap for scientists and engineers seeking to design new advanced materials.

A fundamental understanding of polymers has evolved in recent years concurrent with advances in analytical instrumentation.

The integration of electronics into textiles and clothing has opened up an array of functions beyond those of conventional textiles.

This book provides an introductory and general overview of advances in polymers towards their employment as antimicrobial materials.

Ulrich Leute beschreibt sowohl polymere Materialien, die elektrische Leitfähigkeit ermöglichen, als auch deren wichtigsten Anwendungsfelder.

This book presents the most important advances in the class of topological materials and discusses the topological characterization, modeling and metrology of materials.

In addition to structure formation in crystallizing polymers and semicrystalline polymers, this second edition completes the topic of transport phenomena.

This volume collects the proceedings from the International Congress of Polymers in Concrete 2018 (ICPIC), held under the theme "e;Polymers for Resilient and Sustainable Concrete Infrastructure.

This book provides an overview of polyolefine production, including several recent breakthrough innovations in the fields of catalysis, process technology, and materials design.

The series Advances in Polymer Science presents critical reviews of the present and future trends in polymer and biopolymer science.

This book provides information about the sources, structure, and properties of keratin as well as its applications.

This book presents a comprehensive survey about conducting polymers and their hybrids with different materials.

The series Advances in Polymer Science presents critical reviews of the present and future trends in polymer and biopolymer science.

This book is a concise, readable, yet authoritative primer of basic classic thermodynamics.

Reactive and functional polymers are manufactured with the aim of improving the performance of unmodified polymers or providing functionality for different applications.

This is the first concise book that includes different aspects of naturally-derived components for wound healing.

The book focuses on the thermal transformations of various types of metal chelates, e.

The brief explains in simple terms the essentials of polymer chemistry and how polymers came to be discovered by pioneers in this field.

This book covers manufacturing and processing of various natural filler-based polymer composites using conventional and advanced machining processes.

This collection brings together engineers, scientists, scholars, and entrepreneurs to present their novel and innovative contributions in the domain specific to metal-matrix composites and on aspects specific to  modeling, analysis, measurements, and observations specific to microstructural advances.

Superhydrophobic surfaces, artificially mimicking lotus leaves, have captured the attention of scientists and engineers over the past few decades.

Das vorliegende Lehrbuch beschäftigt sich mit der Synthese, der Charakterisierung und den technischen Anwendungen von Polymeren.

This book presents the basics of fiber reinforced polymers (FRP).

This companion volume to "e;Fundamental Polymer Science"e; (Gedde and Hedenqvist, 2019) offers detailed insights from leading practitioners into experimental methods, simulation and modelling, mechanical and transport properties, processing, and sustainability issues.

This book provides understanding of raw materials, manufacturing and biomedical applications of different polymeric and natural composites such as drug delivery, growth factor delivery, orthopedics, dentistry and wound dressing.

This book offers a systematic overview of polymer joining and highlights the experimental and numerical work currently being pursued to devise possible strategies to overcome the technical issues.

This book discusses the methods synthesizing various carbon materials, like graphite, carbon blacks, carbon fibers, carbon nanotubes, and graphene.

This book provides an overview of the lastest developments in biobased materials and their applications in food packaging.

This book comprehensively covers researches on enzymatic polymerization and related enzymatic approaches to produce well-defined polymers, which is valuable and promising for conducting green polymer chemistry.

This book presents the synthesis, processing and application of selected functional biopolymers as new advanced materials.

This book is the second edition of Soft Actuators, originally published in 2014, with 12 chapters added to the first edition.

Thanks to their unique properties, chitosan and chitosan-based materials have numerous applications in the field of biomedicine, especially in drug delivery.

This book covers nanotechnology based approaches for improving the therapeutic efficacy of natural products.

Science and Principles of Biodegradable and Bioresorbable Medical Polymers: Materials and Properties provides a practical guide to the use of biodegradable and bioresorbable polymers for study, research, and applications within medicine.

Structure and Properties of High-Performance Fibers explores the relationship between the structure and properties of a wide range of high-performance fibers.

The use of plastics in agriculture - to increase crop output, improve food quality and improve sustainability - has grown substantially in both quantity and the range of applications.

This book provides comprehensive coverage of all aspects of physical testing of elastomers (rubbers and thermoplastic elastomers) including mechanical, electrical, thermal and all aspects of durability.

This work is an overview of the state of art on Ageing of Materials and structures in the world.

This brief critically reviews the structure and applications of polysaccharide based materials as a green and sustainable resource in water and water treatment operations.

This book contains recent research on phenolic resin and its composite materials.

This book presents the most recent description of rubber reinforcement, focusing on the network-like structure formation of nanofiller in the rubber matrix under the presence of bound rubber.

Service Life Prediction of Polymers and Coatings: Enhanced Methods focuses on the cutting-edge science behind how plastic and polymer materials are modified by the effects of weathering, offering the latest advances in service life prediction methods.

Written by an academic and industry insider, this book provides an informed study on polysaccharide structural analysis and characterization.