Additive Manufacturing of Functional Polymers and Nanocomposites
Recent Progress, Applications, Challenges and Future Opportunities
- 1st Edition - May 28, 2025
- Imprint: Woodhead Publishing
- Editors: Chaudhery Mustansar Hussain, Kalim Deshmukh
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 2 6 5 1 6 - 7
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 2 6 5 1 7 - 4
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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.
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.
- 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
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
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)
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)
- Edition: 1
- Published: May 28, 2025
- Imprint: Woodhead Publishing
- Language: English
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Chaudhery Mustansar Hussain
Chaudhery Mustansar Hussain is an Adjunct Professor and Director of Laboratories in the Department of Chemistry & Environmental Sciences at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), United States. His research focuses on nanotechnology and advanced materials applications, environmental management, analytical chemistry, and related industries. Dr. Hussain has authored numerous papers in peer-reviewed journals and is a prolific book author and editor, including scientific monographs and handbooks in his fields of expertise.
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, USAKD
Kalim Deshmukh
Dr Kalim Deshmukh is a senior researcher at the New Technologies-Research Centre, University of West Bohemia, Pilsen, Czech Republic. He has over 20 years of research experience working with a wide variety of nanomaterials and polymeric materials, especially polymer blends, nanocomposites, and nanohybrids for various applications. 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 RepublicRead Additive Manufacturing of Functional Polymers and Nanocomposites on ScienceDirect