Engineering applications of polymers and composites

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

This book covers the selection of nanocomposite supercapacitor materials.

This book reviews comprehensively the opportunities and responsibilities of science, society and politics to combat plastic pollution in marine and freshwaters.

Fourier Transform Infrared microspectroscopy (FTIR) was first developed by William Coblentz in 1905 for analytical purposes.

This volume presents the recent developments on the biomedical applications of chitosan and its derivatives.

This book offers a timely yet comprehensive snapshot of innovative research and developments at the interface between manufacturing, materials and mechanical engineering, and quality assurance.

This book presents an introduction to viscoelasticity, in particular, to the theories of dilute polymer solutions and dilute suspensions of rigid particles in viscous and incompressible fluids.

Nanoparticles presents the remarkable variety of nanoparticle families, compositions, structures, and functions.

Presents polymer-based fibre reinforced composite materials and addresses the characteristics of these widely used materials like low density and coefficient of thermal expansion, specific strength with better fatigue resistance and modulus.

This book presents all information necessary to understand the functioning of a slurry loop reactor for the polymerisation of ethylene into high density polyethylene, and to operate it accordingly.

On-surface synthesis is appearing as an extremely promising strategy to create organic nanoarchitectures with atomic precision.

Metal Matrix Composites (MMC's) have found an increased use in various industries due to their special mechanical and physical properties.

Nanoparticles presents the remarkable variety of nanoparticle families, compositions, structures, and functions.

Metal Matrix Composites (MMC's) have found an increased use in various industries due to their special mechanical and physical properties.

Presents polymer-based fibre reinforced composite materials and addresses the characteristics of these widely used materials like low density and coefficient of thermal expansion, specific strength with better fatigue resistance and modulus.

This book presents all information necessary to understand the functioning of a slurry loop reactor for the polymerisation of ethylene into high density polyethylene, and to operate it accordingly.

Composite materials are engineered materials, made from two or more constituents with significantly different physical or chemical properties which remain separate on a macroscopic level within the finished structure.

Nanocomposites are currently defined "e;as a multiphase solid material where one of the phases has one, two or three dimensions of less than 100 nanometers or structures having nano-scale repeat distances between the different phases that make up the material"e;.

This four volume set covers the entire spectrum of pulp and paper chemistry and technology from starting material to processes and products including market demands.

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

Mechanics of Composite, Hybrid, and Multifunctional Materials, Volume 5 of the Proceedings of the 2022 SEM Annual Conference & Exposition on Experimental and Applied Mechanics, the fifth volume of six from the Conference, brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.

This book summarizes recent advances in epoxy vitrimer research, giving thorough discussion of the classification and fabrication of epoxy vitrimers and their composites.

This book provides cutting-edge, up-to-date research findings on the use of bionanocomposites in biodegradable and environmental applications, while also detailing how to achieve bionanocomposites preparation, characteristics, and significant enhancements in physical, chemical, mechanical, thermal properties and applications.

This book provides an overview of the initiation of combustion processes of polymeric materials.

This volume describes new insights into the main aspects of rubber degradation by material's fatigue, wear and aging evolution, as well as their impact on mechanical rubber properties.

This book provides a comprehensive presentation of the most frequently used high resolution manufacturing techniques available, as well as the polymeric materials used for each of the techniques.

The book on advanced structured materials is designed to facilitate teaching and informal discussion in a supportive and friendly environment.

The novel finite element formulations fall into the category of geometrically exact Kirchhoff-Love beams.

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

The book introduces advanced theories for deformation, damage, and failure in materials.

This volume presents recent advances and current knowledge in the field of supramolecular assemblies based on electrostatic interactions.

This book presents the development of electrospun materials, fundamental principles of electrospinning process, controlling parameters, electrospinning strategies, and electrospun nanofibrous structures with specific properties for applications in tissue engineering and regenerative medicine, textile, water treatment, sensor, and energy fields.

This book discusses the diverse array of particles that are found in coatings from both a physical and a performance standpoint.

The book is primarily focused on natural plant (lignocellulosic) fibers as sustainable reinforcement material for green composites.

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

Shape Memory Composites Based on Polymers and Metals for 4D Printing is a thorough discussion of the physics and chemistry behind this developing area of materials science.

This book provides an introduction to the micromechanics of fiber-reinforced laminae, which deals with the prediction of the macroscopic mechanical lamina properties based on the mechanical properties of the constituents, i.

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 focuses on original theories and approaches in the field of mechanics.

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 processing, characterization, mechanical behavior, measurements, failure behavior, and kinetics governing microstructural influences on failure by fracture.

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

The book presents recent developments in the field of composites, investigated by Broadband Dielectric Spectroscopy (BDS) and sheds a special focus on nanocomposites.

The novel finite element formulations fall into the category of geometrically exact Kirchhoff-Love beams.