Engineering applications of polymers and composites

This book is addressed to Master and PhD students as well as researchers from academia and industry.

This book covers theoretical and experimental findings at the interface between fluid mechanics, heat transfer and energy technologies.

This book presents the fundamental aspects, recent developments in fabrication and characterization techniques, structure, properties, and emerging applications of MXenes.

This book reports the basics of hybrid phosphor materials, their synthesis routes and their special properties and characterization techniques.

The book provides practical recommendations for creation of fire retardant materials with an increased service life.

This book reports on the design, synthesis and characterization of new small molecule electron acceptors for polymer solar cells.

This brief describes a novel approach to overcome the disadvantages of hemp fibres in cementitious composites.

This thesis makes significant advances to the understanding of bottlebrush polymers.

This book presents the synthetic methodologies as well as the properties and potential usage of various ruthenium-containing materials.

This book introduces the physics and chemistry of plastic scintillators (fluorescent polymers) that are able to emit light when exposed to ionizing radiation, discussing their chemical modification in the early 1950s and 1960s, as well as the renewed upsurge in interest in the 21st century.

Sustainable development has become a great concern in modern society.

This book is intended for use both in the industry and the academia.

This book summarizes the recent advances in carbon-related materials.

This book presents a novel continuum finite deformation framework addressing the complex interactions among electrostatics, species transport, and mechanics in solid networks immersed in a fluid phase of solvent and ions.

This book provides an overview of the latest advances in applications of nanocomposites in wastewater treatment.

This book covers the most recent advances in the deformation and fracture behaviour of polymer material.

This book reveals how polymer blending and grafting now offer a growing range of new applications for advanced films and fibers.

This book provides valuable information about fiber-reinforced polymer composites, with emphasis in the process of water absorption by experiments and simulation.

This volume explores the latest developments in the area of polymer electrolyte membranes (PEMs) used for high-temperature fuel cells.

This volume presents the results of a multi-year research programme funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Council), which explains how organic solar cells work.

This book presents selected papers from the 2nd Workshop on "e;Durability of Composites in a Marine Environment"e;, which was held in Brest, France in August 2016.

This book contains full papers presented at the First Virtual Conference on Mechanical Fatigue (VCMF 2020), which was organised by the University of Porto (FEUP, Portugal), the Wroclaw University of Science and Technology (Poland), University of Electronic Science and Technology of China (China), Siberian Federal University (Russia), and the ESIS/TC12 Technical Committee (European Structural Integrity Society-ESIS), between 9 and 11 of September 2020.

This book presents synthesis methods, characterization techniques, properties and applications of hybrid conducting polymers.

This book reviews the work in the field of nanoadsorbents derived from natural polymers, with a special emphasis on materials finding application in water remediation.

The book describes the development and commercialization of materials with viscoelastic properties, placing particular emphasis on the scientific and technological differences between plastics and bioplastics.

This book summarizes the results of years of research on the problem of strength and fracture of polymers and elastomers.

Processing of polymer nanocomposites usually requires special attention since the resultant structure-micro- and nano-level, is directly influenced by among other factors, polymer/nano-additive chemistry and the processing strategy.

This brief provides a comprehensive review of lignocellulosic materials and their primary role in the future development of bio-based packaging.

This book shows how the use of biodegradable plastics in agriculture can have a profound positive impact on plasticulture.

Ein praxisorientiertes Lehrbuch zum nachhaltigen Verständnis über Herstellung und Eigenschaften von Kunststoffen.

Wie lange gibt es schon Verbundwerkstoffe?

The aim of the present edited book is to furnish scientific information about manufacturing, properties, and application of clay and carbon based polymer nanocomposites.

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The 3rd edition of this successful textbook continues to build on the strengths that were recognized by a 2008 Textbook Excellence Award from the Text and Academic Authors Association (TAA).

This book addresses a range of synthesis and characterization techniques that are critical for tailoring and broadening the various aspects of polymer gels, as well as the numerous advantages that polymer gel-based materials offer.

This book presents a comprehensive study on a new class of branched polymers, known as hyperbranched polymers (HBPs).

This book summarizes the recent advances in the science and engineering of polymer-gel-based materials in different fields.

The 3rd edition of this important dictionary offers more than 12,000 entries with expanded encyclopaedic-style definitions making this major reference work invaluable to practitioners, researchers and students working in the area of polymer science and technology.

This book presents the reader with a story-based narrative of discovery and development of radiation-induced graft polymerization.

This book introduces recent progress in stimuli-responsive interfaces constructed on colloidal materials such as micelles and vesicles and on solid material surfaces.

This volume covers various aspects of cross-linked polyethylene (XLPE).

This book highlights current advanced developments in bioepoxy and bioepoxy/clay nanocomposites and an optimisation of material formulation and processing parameters on fabrication of bioepoxy/clay nanocomposites in order to achieve the highest mechanical properties in relation to their morphological structures, thermal properties, as well as biodegradability and water absorption, which is based on the use of Taguchi design of experiments with the consideration of technical and economical point of view.

This book presents select papers presented at the annual meeting of the Asian Polymer Association.

This book provides topical information on innovative, structural and functional materials and composites with applications in various engineering fields covering the structure, properties, manufacturing process, and applications of these materials.

This book integrates aspects of computational materials science, physical metallurgy, alloy design, structure-properties relationships, and applications of advanced multicomponent alloys.

This book is written to introduce the application of high-performance composite materials such as fiber reinforced polymers, functionally graded composites, and sustainable fiber reinforced composites for development of thin-walled plated structures, beams, girders, and deck structures subjected to different kinds of loads.

This book discusses synthesis and characterization of sustainable polymers.