Engineering applications of polymers and composites

This doctoral thesis explains the synthesis and characterization of novel, smart hybrid nanomaterials.

This book describes the use of multiwall carbon nanotubes as composites with polycarbonates and as protective coatings on glass surfaces.

The use of isoconversional kinetic methods for analysis of thermogravimetric and calorimetric data on thermally stimulated processes is quickly growing in popularity.

This book covers graphene reinforced polymers, which are useful in electronic applications, including electrically conductive thermoplastics composites, thermosets and elastomers.

Agricultural biomass is abundant worldwide and it can be considered as alternative source of renewable and sustainable materials which can be used as potential materials for different applications.

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

Advances in Polymer Science enjoys a longstanding tradition and good reputation in its community.

This book addresses a broad spectrum of areas in both hybrid materials and hierarchical composites, including recent development of processing technologies, structural designs, modern computer simulation techniques, and the relationships between the processing-structure-property-performance.

The book provides an up-to-date overview of the diverse medical applications of advanced polymers.

This brief describes the development of a new model for realistically characterizing solution-diffusion transport mechanisms in polymeric membranes that are used for separation and purification of organic solvents.

This is an expanded and revised second edition, presenting accurate and comprehensive information about our leading thermal scientists to current and future generations.

Silicones have unique properties including thermal oxidative stability, low temperature flow, high compressibility, low surface tension, hydrophobicity and electric properties.

Advances in Polymer Science enjoys a longstanding tradition and good reputation in its community.

The series Topics in Current Chemistry presents critical reviews of the present and future trends in modern chemical research.

This Springer Laboratory volume introduces the reader to advanced techniques for the separation and fractionation of polyolefins.

This thesis identifies the turning point in chain length, after which alkanes self-solvate into a folded structure instead of an extended stretched conformation.

This brief includes information on the background of and development of synthesis of various types of surface active monomers.

This book summarizes the properties and applications of conventional and commercially available fiber-forming, bioresorbable polymers, as well as those currently under study, for use as biotextiles.

Synergetics is the quantitative study of multicomponent systems that exhibit nonlinear dynamics and cooperativity.

Tian Lu's dissertation describes major advances in ultrathin-layer chromatography (UTLC), liquid chromatography and surface-assisted laser desorption ionization (SALDI), and matrix-enhanced SALDI (ME-SALDI) mass spectrometry.

This book describes the physics of the second-generation quartz crystal microbalance (QCM), a fundamental method of analysis for soft matter at interfaces.

The series Topics in Heterocyclic Chemistry presents critical reviews on present and future trends in the research of heterocyclic compounds.

Each review within the volume critically surveys one aspect of that topic and places it within the context of the volume as a whole.

This set of lectures provides an introduction to the structure, thermodynamics and dynamics of liquids, binary solutions and polymers at a level that will enable graduate students and non-specialist researchers to understand more specialized literature and to possibly start their own work in this field.

This thesis offers novel insights into the time-dependent structural evolution of polymers under deformation.

This book presents a unified view of the physicochemical origin of the mechanical behaviour of gases, simple solids and liquids, suspensions, polymers, emulsions, foams, and granular materials, along with techniques for measuring that behaviour.

This book describes the dynamics of low molecular weight and polymeric molecules when they are constrained under conditions of geometrical confinement.

Lianwei Li's Ph.

In this thesis, Bernhard Schmidt describes his research into two fields in the chemical sciences: supramolecular and macromolecular chemistry.

A Brief History of Polymeric Cryogels Vladmir I.

Mechanical Properties of Single Molecules and Polymer Aggregates Rudiger Berger, Kurt Binder, Gregor Diezemann, Jurgen Gau, Mark Helm, Katharina Landfester, Wolfgang Paul (Halle), Peter Virnau.

Metamaterials are artificially designed materials engineered to acquire their properties by their specific structure rather than their composition.

Advances in Polymer Science enjoys a longstanding tradition and good reputation in its community.

This book summarizes comprehensively many recent technical research accomplishments in the area of flame retardant research.

This book delivers a deep insight into thermal polymer degradation features and put a particular emphasis on blends, composites and nanocomposites.

Advances in Polymer Science enjoys a longstanding tradition and good reputation in its community.

This volume of Progress in Colloid and Polymer Science assembles original contributions and invited reviews from the priority research program "e;Intelligent Hydrogels"e;, funded by the German Science Foundation DFG since 2006, with about 25 contributing research groups.

This book offers a valuable reference source to graduate and post graduate students, engineering students, research scholars polymer engineers from industry.

This extensive knowledge base provides a coherent description of advanced topics in materials science and engineering with an interdisciplinary/multidisciplinary approach.

Advances in Polymer Science enjoys a longstanding tradition and good reputation in its community.

This book describes the tremendous progress that has been made in the development of  gas separation membranes based both on inorganic and polymeric materials.

This thesis explores a route to induce and control the structure formation process in thin films by the use of strong electric fields.

The triggered release of functional compounds from such polymeric carriers as micelles, nanoparticles or nanogels is a rapidly developing and highly versatile concept which is expected to be one of the key approaches to future therapeutics.

The development of new high-tech applications and devices has created a seemingly insatiable demand for novel functional materials with enhanced and tailored properties.

In this PhD thesis, Yue Yanan addresses a long-overlooked and critical question in the development of non-viral vectors for gene delivery.

This thesis deals with the processes that create ordered assemblies from disordered nanoparticles.

Structure formation in crystallizing polymers, as occurring during processing, has not been treated so far in a coherent form.

This volume covers experimental and theoretical advances on the relationship between composition, structure and macroscopic mechanical properties of novel hydrogels containing dynamic bonds.

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

This book covers smart polymer nanocomposites with perspectives for application in energy harvesting, as self-healing materials, or shape memory materials.