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Additive Manufacturing of Functional Polymers and Nanocomposites

Recent Progress, Applications, Challenges and Future Opportunities

  • 1st Edition - April 29, 2025
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Chaudhery Mustansar Hussain, Kalim Deshmukh
  • Language: English

Additive Manufacturing of Functional Polymers and Nanocomposites: Recent Progress,Applications, Challenges and Future Opportunities provides up-to-date knowledge in thisim… Read more

Description

Additive Manufacturing of Functional Polymers and Nanocomposites: Recent Progress,
Applications, Challenges and Future Opportunities provides up-to-date knowledge in this
important research field. The book provides a comprehensive overview of the whole development
phase, from material synthesis to component design and manufacturing and applications. The
contents are divided into five key parts. Section 1 introduces additive manufacturing of functional
polymers and nanocomposites and discusses the numerous developments and perspectives that have been perceived over recent years. Section 2 looks at the various types of functional polymers and nanocomposite materials, including their characterization, and the various synthesis techniques that can be employed to fabricate customized objects using AM technologies. Section 3 focuses on the use of functional polymers and nanocomposites in a broad range of applications including health care, electronics, automotive, robotics, aerospace, and other industrial sectors. Section 4 focuses on theoretical modeling and machine learning approaches. Section 5 discusses key challenges, the environmental and health impact, commercialization aspects and opportunities for the future.

Key features

  • Focuses on additive manufacturing of functional polymers and nanocomposites
    • Covers fundamental aspects of additive manufacturing and materials processing techniques used to obtain optimized product design
    • Covers a broad range of progressive additive manufacturing techniques
    • Provides detailed information on additively manufactured smart structures and customized parts for different applications
    • Presents recent studies in a fast-evolving scientific research field

Readership

Academic and industrial researchers, materials scientists and engineers, chemists, and mechanical engineers and all those working in the field of additive manufacturing of functional polymers and nanocomposite materials

Table of contents

Section 1: Additive Manufacturing Techniques, Material Processing and Design Optimizations

1. Additive Manufacturing: A Roadmap Towards Intellectual and Industrial Developments

2. Additive Manufacturing Techniques: Mechanisms, Materials and Applications

3. Additive Manufacturing of Smart Polymeric Materials: Recent Developments and Future Perspectives

4. Additive Manufacturing of Functional Polymers and Nanocomposites: Opportunities and Challenges

5. Processing, Structural Design and Topology Optimization of Additively Manufactured Functional Polymers and Nanocomposites

Section 2: Synthesis, Properties and Characterizations of Additively Manufactured Functional Polymers and Nanocomposites

6. Synthesis and Functionalization Methods of Polymer Nanocomposites for Additive Manufacturing

7. Characterization Techniques of Additively Manufactured Functional Polymers and Nanocomposites

8. Thermal and Mechanical Properties of Additively Manufactured Functional Polymers and Nanocomposites

Section 3: Applications of Additively Manufactured Functional Polymers and Nanocomposites

9. Additive Manufacturing of Functional Polymers and Nanocomposites for Soft Robotics

10. Additive Manufacturing of Functional Polymers and Nanocomposites for Automotive Applications

11. Applications of Additively Manufactured Functional Polymers and Nanocomposites in Aerospace and Aviation Industry

12. Additive Manufacturing of Functional Polymers and Nanocomposites for Sport Goods Applications

13. Additive Manufacturing of Functional Polymers and Nanocomposites for Electronics and Optoelectronics

14. Additively Manufactured Functional Polymers and Nanocomposites for Electrochemical Device Applications

15. Additively Manufactured Functional Polymers and Nanocomposites for Health Care and Biomedical Applications

16. Additively Manufactured Functional Polymers and Nanocomposites for Environmental Applications

Section 4: Theoretical Modelling and Machine Learning Approaches

17. Simulations and Theoretical Modelling of Functional Polymers and Nanocomposites for Additive Manufacturing

18. Machine Learning Techniques in Additive Manufacturing of Functional Polymers and Nanocomposites

Section 5: Challenges, Environmental and Health Impact and Commercialization Aspects

19. Critical Challenges, Future Opportunities, Life Cycle Assessments, Environmental and Health Impact and Commercialization Aspects of Additively Manufactured Functional Polymers and Nanocomposites

20. Sustainability, Supply Chain Resilience and Implication of Additive Manufacturing Technologies in Latest Industrial Revolution (Industry 4.0)

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: April 29, 2025
  • Language: English

About the editors

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Chaudhery Mustansar Hussain

Prof. Chaudhery Mustansar Hussain, PhD, is an adjunct professor and director of laboratories in the Department of Chemistry & Environmental Sciences at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Newark, New Jersey, United States. His research focuses on sustainability, the applications of nanotechnology and advanced materials, environmental management, analytical chemistry and other various industries. Dr. Hussain is the author of numerous papers in peer-reviewed journals as well as a prolific author and editor of around 200 books, including scientific monographs and handbooks in his research areas. He has published with ELSEVIER, American Chemical Society, Royal Society of Chemistry, John Wiley & Sons, CRC Press, and Springer.

Affiliations and expertise
Adjunct Professor and Director of Chemistry & EVSC Labs, Department of Chemistry and Environmental Science, New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), Newark, NJ, USA

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Kalim Deshmukh

Kalim Deshmukh is a senior researcher at the New Technologies-Research Centre, University of West Bohemia, Pilsen, Czech Republic. His research interest is mainly focused on the synthesis, characterization, and property investigations of novel polymer nanocomposites reinforced with different nanofillers, including various nanomaterials including carbon-based materials such as carbon black, carbon nanotubes, graphene and its derivatives, and MXenes for energy storage, energy harvesting, gas sensing, EMI shielding and high-k dielectric applications.

Affiliations and expertise
Senior Researcher, New Technologies - Research Centre, University of West Bohemia, Czech Republic

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