Advanced Lightweight Multifunctional Materials

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

Del i serien Woodhead Publishing in Materials

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Beskrivning

Advanced Lightweight Multifunctional Materials presents the current state-of-the-art on multifunctional materials research, focusing on different morphologies and their preparation and applications. The book emphasizes recent advances on these types of materials as well as their application. Chapters cover porous multifunctional materials, thermochromic and thermoelectric materials, shape memory materials, piezoelectric multifunctional materials, electrochromic and electrorheological, soft materials, magnetic and photochromic materials, and more. The book will be a valuable reference resource for academic researchers and industrial engineers working in the design and manufacture of multifunctional materials, composites and nanocomposites.

Provides detailed information on design, modeling and structural applications
Focuses on characteristics, processing, design and applications
Discusses the main types of lightweight multifunctional materials and processing techniques, as well as the physico-chemical insights that can lead to improved performance

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2020-11-24
Mått:152 x 229 x 28 mm
Vikt:880 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Woodhead Publishing in Materials
Antal sidor:550
Förlag:Elsevier Science
ISBN:9780128185018

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Mer om författaren

Pedro Costa graduated in Physics and obtained his PhD degree in Materials Engineering at the University of Minho, Portugal in 2013. He is currently a researcher at the same university working in polymer-based composites for energy harvesting, sensors and actuator applications. He participates in several international conferences, has published in scientific journals and has one patent registered. His research interests are in the field of polymer-based smart material composites and their applications, including energy harvesting and generation. Carlos Miguel Costa is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Physics, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal. His work is focused on the development electroactive polymer based porous membranes, anode and cathode material for energy storage applications in lithium-ion batteries and printed batteries. He also has experience in the processing, characterization, and optimization of sustainable polymers and polymer nanocomposites for sensors and actuators.Senentxu Lanceros-Méndez is Research Professor and Scientific Director at the Basque Center for Materials, Applications and Nanostructures, Leioa, Spain. His work is focused in the area of polymer-based smart materials for sensors and actuators, energy, and biomedical applications.

Innehållsförteckning

1. Introduction: overview of lightweight multifunctional materials2. Conventional preparation of multifunctional materials3. Additive manufacturing of multifunctional materials4. Reinforcement Structural Materials5. Porous lightweight materials: Environment and energy sustainability6. Advances of thermochromic and thermoelectric materials7. Multifunctional materials for shape memory alloys/polymers/ceramics8. Piezoelectric polymers and composites for multifunctional materials9. Advances of Electrochromic and electro-rheological materials10. Progress of Soft Materials: Stretchable functional composites and lightweight materials for structural health monitoring11. Magnetic field into multifunctional materials: magnetorheological, magnetostrictive and magnetocaloric12. Multifunctional materials with pH-change/solvent/moisture: smart gels13. Recent advances of photochromic materials14. Biomolecular multifunctional materials15. Challenges and future trends: Functional multi-composites with novel structural and sensing properties