Advanced Lightweight Multifunctional Materials
- 1st Edition - November 24, 2020
- Editors: Pedro Costa, Carlos M. Costa, Senentxu Lanceros-Méndez
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 8 5 0 1 - 8
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 8 5 0 2 - 5
Advanced Lightweight Multifunctional Materials presents the current state-of-the-art on multifunctional materials research, focusing on different morphologies and their preparati… Read more
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.
- Provides detailed information on design, modeling and structural applications
- Focuses on characteristics, processing, design and applications
- Discusses the main types of lightweight multifunctional materials and processing techniques, as well as the physico-chemical insights that can lead to improved performance
Academic researchers, materials scientists and industrial engineers working in the area of multifunctional materials, composites and nanocomposites
1. Introduction: overview of lightweight multifunctional materials
2. Conventional preparation of multifunctional materials
3. Additive manufacturing of multifunctional materials
4. Reinforcement Structural Materials
5. Porous lightweight materials: Environment and energy sustainability
6. Advances of thermochromic and thermoelectric materials
7. Multifunctional materials for shape memory alloys/polymers/ceramics
8. Piezoelectric polymers and composites for multifunctional materials
9. Advances of Electrochromic and electro-rheological materials
10. Progress of Soft Materials: Stretchable functional composites and lightweight materials for structural health monitoring
11. Magnetic field into multifunctional materials: magnetorheological, magnetostrictive and magnetocaloric
12. Multifunctional materials with pH-change/solvent/moisture: smart gels
13. Recent advances of photochromic materials
14. Biomolecular multifunctional materials
15. Challenges and future trends: Functional multi-composites with novel structural and sensing properties
- Edition: 1
- Published: November 24, 2020
- Language: English
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Pedro Costa
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.
Affiliations and expertise
University of Minho, PortugaCC
Carlos M. Costa
Carlos M. Costa is an Assistant Researcher at the 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 has also experience in the processing, characterization, and optimization of sustainable polymers and polymer nanocomposites for sensors and actuators.
Affiliations and expertise
Assistant Researcher, University of Minho, Braga, PortugalSL
Senentxu Lanceros-Méndez
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.
Affiliations and expertise
Research Professor and Scientific Director, Basque Center for Materials, Applications and Nanostructures, Leioa, SpainRead Advanced Lightweight Multifunctional Materials on ScienceDirect