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Smart Polymer Nanocomposites

Design, Synthesis, Functionalization, Properties, and Applications

  • 1st Edition - October 21, 2022
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Nisar Ali, Muhammad Bilal, Adnan Khan, Tuan Anh Nguyen, Ram K. Gupta
  • Language: English

Smart Polymer Nanocomposites: Design, Synthesis, Functionalization, Properties, and Applications brings together the latest research on synthetic methods and surface functiona… Read more

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Description

Smart Polymer Nanocomposites: Design, Synthesis, Functionalization, Properties, and Applications brings together the latest research on synthetic methods and surface functionalization of polymers and polymer composites for advanced applications. Sections cover the basic principles of advanced polymer nanocomposites, including morphology, materials, characterization, and copolymerization, provide in-depth coverage of synthetic methods, facilitating the preparation of polymeric nanoparticles with the required properties, examine the morphologies of polymer nanocomposites and stimuli-responsive surfaces, and focus on cutting-edge approaches to tailoring polymeric nanocomposites according to the requirements.

The book's final chapters focus on smart polymer nanocomposites for specific advanced applications, including high-temperature environments, bone tissue regeneration, biomedicine, wastewater treatment, dielectric and energy storage, chiral separation, food packaging, sensing, and drug delivery. This is a valuable resource for researchers and advanced students in polymer science, composite science, nanotechnology, and materials science, as well as those approaching the area from a range of other disciplines, including industry R&D.

Key features

  • Covers morphology, architectures, polymer materials, characterization, and polymerization methodologies for polymer nanocomposites
  • Provides novel techniques for the design, synthesis and surface tailoring of polymer nanoparticles to achieve required properties
  • Explores state-of-the-art applications in high temperature environments, biomedicine, environment, sensing, energy storage and food packaging

Readership

Academia: Researchers and advanced students in polymer science, composites, nanotechnology, and materials science, and those approaching from other disciplines (engineering, biomedicine, environmental science, energy storage, electronics, etc.). Industry: Engineers and R&D professionals with an interest in advanced nanocomposites for a range of applications (biomedical, environmental, energy storage, etc.)

Table of contents

Part I. Basic Principles

1. Introduction to Polymeric Nanomaterials.

2. Morphology of Polymer Nanoparticles

3. Natural Polymers. An Introduction

4. Inorganic Polymeric Nanoparticles

5. Characterization of Polymeric Nanoparticles

Part II. Synthetic Method of Polymeric Nanoparticles

6. Emulsion and Mini-emulsion Polymerization

7. Co-polymerization

8. Step Growth Polymerization

9. Control/living Polymerization

10. Precipitation Polymerization

11. Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization

12. Radical Addition Fragmentation Transfer Polymerization

13. Complex Coordination Polymerization

14. Emulsifier-free Polymerization

15. Polymer Initiator and Surface Active

Part III. Tailoring of Various Polymeric Nanocomposites

16. Polymer Nanocomposites. An Overview

17. Silica-based Polymer Nanocomposites

18. Clay-based Polymer Nancomposites

19. Iron Oxide/Polymer Magnetic Composite Nanoparticles

20. Graphene based polymer nanocomposites

21. pH-responsive Functionalized Polymeric Nanoparticles

22. Thermo-responsive Functionalized Polymeric Nanocomposites

23. Polyhedral Oligosilsesquioxane-based Polymer Nanocomposites

Part IV. Applications of Polymer and Polymer-composite Nanoparticles

24. High-temperature Applications of Polymer Nanocomposites

25. Polymer Nanocomposites in Bone Tissue Regeneration

26. Polymer Nanocomposites for Biomedical Application

27. Polymer Nanocomposites for Wastewater Treatment

28. Polymer Nanocomposites for Dielectric and Energy Storage Applications

29. Optically Active Polymer Nanocomposites for Supercapaitor Applications.

30. Polymer Nanocomposites for Food-packaging Applications

31. Polymer Nanocomposites for Sensing Applications

32. Polymer Nanocomposites for Drug Delivery Applications

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: October 25, 2022
  • Language: English

About the editors

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Nisar Ali

Nisar Ali is an Associate Professor in the Department of Basic and Applied Sciences, College of Applied and Health Sciences, A’Sharqiyah University, Oman. His research interest includes polymer/biopolymer hybrids and assembly materials, magnetic composite nanostructures, surface functionalization, wettability, and wastewater remediation.
Affiliations and expertise
Associate Professor, Department of Basic and Applied Sciences, A’Sharqiyah University, Oman

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Muhammad Bilal

Muhammad Bilal is working as an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Gdansk University of Technology, Poland. Previously, he served as an assistant/associate Professor at Poznan University of Technology, Poland, and the School of Life Science and Food Engineering, Huaiyin Institute of Technology, Huaian, China. He earned his Ph.D. from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, specializing in bioengineering and applied biotechnology. His main research activities are oriented to Environmental biotechnology, nanotechnology, enzyme engineering, immobilization, chemical modifications, and industrial applications of microbial enzymes, liquid, and solid waste management. He has authored over 700 peer-reviewed articles, 150 book chapters, 25 edited books. Dr. Bilal is the associate editor of Frontiers in Chemical Engineering and Frontiers in Environmental Science (Frontiers), and an editorial board member for several journals. He was listed as a highly cited researcher (Clarivate) in 2021 and holds several "highly cited papers" in WOS.
Affiliations and expertise
Associate Professor, Department of Sanitary Engineering, Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Gdańsk University of Technology, Gdańsk, Poland

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Adnan Khan

Adnan Khan earned his Ph.D. in Inorganic Chemistry from the Institute of Chemistry University of Campinas, Sao Paulo-Brazil (UNICAMP) in 2011. His main areas of interest includes adsorption, catalysis, biopolymers, and molecularly imprinted polymers. He is currently wroks as an Associate Professor at the Institute of Chemical Sciences, University of Peshawar. Dr. Adnan has more than 75 publications to his name in international peer-reviewed journals, including co-editor of books, author book chapters, review papers, and conference papers that are either published or in progress.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Institute of Chemical Sciences, University of Peshawar, Pakistan

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Tuan Anh Nguyen

Tuan Anh Nguyen is a Senior Principal Research Scientist at the Institute for Tropical Technology, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, Hanoi, Vietnam. He received a BS in physics from Hanoi University in 1992, a BS in economics from Hanoi National Economics University in 1997, and a PhD in chemistry from the Paris Diderot University, France, in 2003. He was a Visiting Scientist at Seoul National University, South Korea, in 2004, and the University of Wollongong, Australia, in 2005. He then worked as a Postdoctoral Research Associate and Research Scientist at Montana State University, United States in 2006-09. In 2012 he was appointed as the Head of the Microanalysis Department at the Institute for Tropical Technology. His research areas of interest include smart sensors, smart networks, smart hospitals, smart cities, complexiverse, and digital twins. He has edited more than 74 books for Elsevier, 12 books for CRC Press, 1 book for Springer, 1 book for RSC, and 2 books for IGI Global. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Kenkyu Journal of Nanotechnology & Nanoscience.
Affiliations and expertise
Senior Principal Research Scientist, Institute for Tropical Technology, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, Hanoi, Vietnam

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Ram K. Gupta

Ram Gupta is a Professor in the Department of Chemistry at Pittsburg State University, Kansas, United States. His research focus is in green energy production and storage using nanomaterials, optoelectronics and photovoltaics devices, organic-inorganic heterojunctions for sensors, nanomagnetism, conducting polymers and composites as well as bio-based polymers, bio-compatible nanofibers for tissue regeneration, scaffold and antibacterial applications, and bio-degradable metallic implants.

Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Department of Chemistry, Pittsburg State University, Pittsburg, Kansas, USA

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