Hybrid and Hierarchical Composite Materials

This book addresses a broad spectrum of areas in both hybrid materials and hierarchical composites, including recent development of processing technologies, structural designs, modern computer simulation techniques, and the relationships between the processing-structure-property-performance. Each topic is introduced at length with numerous and detailed examples and over 150 illustrations. In addition, the authors present a method of categorizing these materials, so that representative examples of all material classes are discussed.

Details emerging nanotechnologies with a focus on biological hybrids Provides both a general overview of composite material classes as well as specific, detailed examples, highlighting a variety of applications Describes processing, structure, design, modeling and simulations, and applications of hybrid and hierarchical composite materials Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Autorentext
Tomoko Sano, Ph.D. and Charles Randow, Ph.D. are engineers at the US Army Research Laboratory.

Prof. Changsson Kim is a faculty member of the Materials Science and Engineering Department at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

Inhalt
Introduction.- Organic-Inorganic Polymer Hybrids: Synthetic Strategies and Applications.- Polymer-Tethered Nanoparticle Materials An Emerging Platform for Multifunctional Hybrid Materials.- Multiferroic Magnetoelectric Composites/Hybrids.- Clay/Polymer Nanocomposites: Processing, Properties and Applications.- Medical Applications of Hierarchical Composites.- Electrochemical Hierarchical Composites.- Bioinspired Structural Hierarchical Composites.- Hierarchical Composites Containing Carbon Nanotubes.