Advanced Lightweight Multifunctional Materials (Woodhead Publishing in Materials) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0128185015 ISBN 13: 9780128185018

Verlag: Woodhead Publishing, 2020

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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.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

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.

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Multifunctional materials are increasingly being studied and are suitable for several technological applications including energy storage, production and conversion, water treatment, air purification, drug delivery systems, health monitoring, biomedical applications, and structural health reinforcement and monitoring.

Lightweight multifunctional materials are an emerging class of materials research with connections into many different scientific fields such as physics, chemistry, materials science, biology, and medicine. This book 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 covered include porous multifunctional materials; thermochromic and thermoelectric materials; shape memory materials; piezoelectric multifunctional materials; electrochromic and electrorheological; soft materials; magnetic and photochromic materials.

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.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Woodhead Publishing
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2020
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0128185015
• ISBN 13: 9780128185018
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 550
• Herausgeber: Costa Pedro, Costa Carlos M., Lanceros-Méndez Senentxu
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