Sustainability of Green and Eco-friendly Composites

The book explores the pertinent aspects of sustainability of green and eco-friendly composites including their development methods and processing, characterization, properties, and applications. Significance for the design and engineering of high-performance green and eco-friendly composites is discussed in the present book. Insights on a wide spectrum of potential advanced applications ranging from automotive and aerospace to biomedical and packaging, etc. using these are highlighted. Further, it discusses life cycle and carbon footprint assessment of sustainable materials.

Features:

• Explores different processing methods of green and eco-friendly composites
• Discusses development and optimization of green nanocomposites for sustainable manufacturing
• Collates modern green and eco-friendly composites research from theory to application
• Covers hybridization of reinforced fibers on the performance of green and eco-friendly composites
• Analyzes and discusses calculation of carbon footprint and Life Cycle Assessment of composites

This book is aimed at graduate students and researchers in materials science and engineering, sustainable materials, composites, and nanomaterials.