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Shape Memory Polymer-Derived Nanocomposites

Materials, Properties, and Applications

  • 1st Edition - January 10, 2024
  • Latest edition
  • Author: Ayesha Kausar
  • Language: English

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Description

Shape Memory Polymer derived Nanocomposites: Materials, Properties, and Applications summarizes fundamentals and applications of shape memory polymer derived nanocomposites. The book presents a state-of-the-art assessment, including updates on their flexibility, durability, heat stability, shape deformability, and the shape memory features of these polymers. Essential categories of the stimuli-responsive polymer-based nanocomposites are discussed in terms of recent scientific literature, and subsequent sections of the book are dedicated to the potential of shape memory polymer-based nanocomposite in various technical fields.

Key features

  • Provides the essentials of shape memory polymeric nanocomposites
  • Includes important categories of shape memory nanocomposites
  • Presents current technological applications of shape memory polymers and derived nanocomposite in sponges, aerospace, EMI shielding, ionizing radiation shielding, sensors, actuator, supercapacitor, electronics, and biomedical fields

Readership

Academia: Researchers and advanced students across nanotechnology, polymer science, composite materials, chemistry, electronics, biomedicine, materials science, and engineering Industry: Scientists, engineers, and R&D professionals with an interest in shape memory polymers and their nanocomposites, for advanced applications (electronics, sensors, textiles, biomedicine, etc.)

Table of contents

1. Shape memory polymers: Mechanism, structure, and properties

2. Shape memory polymer-based nanocomposites

3. Polyurethane in shape memory nanomaterials

4. Epoxy-based nanocomposites as emerging stimuli-responsive materials

5. Perspectives on stimuli-sensitive polyester nanocomposites

6. Shape memory polystyrene and trans-1,4-polyisoprene (TPI) derived nanocomposites

7. Cutting-edge shape memory nanocomposite sponges

8. Shape memory nanomaterials in aerospace

9. Electromagnetic interference shielding and ionizing radiation shielding effect of stimuli-responsive nanocomposites

10. Multipurpose shape memory nanocomposites: Sensors, actuators, supercapacitors, electronics, and smart textiles

11. Versatile shape memory nanocomposites: Technological platform for biomedical applications

12. Modelling and simulation for shape memory nanocomposites

13. Future of shape memory nanocomposites: 3D and 4D printing, sustainability, and green nanomaterials

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: January 10, 2024
  • Language: English

About the author

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Ayesha Kausar

Prof. Dr. Ayesha Kausar is affiliated with the National Centre for Physics, Islamabad, Pakistan. Her current research interests include the design, fabrication, characterization, and exploration of structure-property relationships and potential applications of nanocomposites, polymeric composites/nanocomposites, nanoparticles/polymeric nanoparticles, quantum dots, nanocarbons (such as graphene, carbon nanotubes, nanodiamonds, fullerenes), inorganic/hybrid materials, nanofibers, and nano-foam architectures. Dr. Kausar has made extensive contributions to the fields of nanomaterials and materials science, with numerous scientific publications in international peer-reviewed journals. She has authored multiple monographs on topics ranging from carbon nano-onions and graphene quantum dots to polymer-based nanocomposites and conducting polymer nanocomposites. Additionally, she has contributed chapters to a large number of international books and encyclopedias. Her work has been recognized in recent years by inclusion in the world’s top 2% of scientists in materials science and nanotechnology, according to surveys conducted by Stanford University.

Affiliations and expertise
Professor and Researcher, National Centre for Physics, Islamabad, Pakistan

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