Polymer/Nanodiamond Nanocomposites
Fundamentals, Properties and Applications
- 1st Edition - June 14, 2024
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Author: Ayesha Kausar
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 5 9 0 8 - 4
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 5 9 0 9 - 1
Polymer/Nanodiamond Nanocomposites: Fundamentals, Properties and Applications provides an up-to-date review of these materials. The structure, design, processing, and propertie… Read more
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Request a sales quotePolymer/Nanodiamond Nanocomposites: Fundamentals, Properties and Applications provides an up-to-date review of these materials. The structure, design, processing, and properties, as well as technological advancements, are all thoroughly discussed. Several practical and potential application areas are also identified such as tribological aerospace/automobile materials (thermally conducting, lubricant, and radiation shielding), coatings/anti-corrosion nanomaterials, shape memory nanocomposites, energy devices (Li ion batteries and solar cells), and biomedical nanomaterials (drug delivery, tissue engineering, biosensor, imaging).
Current difficulties and potential opportunities are also discussed in detail. The book covers all aspects of these new novel materials' design, structure, manufacture, and applications, offering an up-to-date, comprehensive knowledge resource for materials scientists, researchers, and engineers.
- Covers the latest advances in polymer/nanodiamond nanocomposites
- Includes important fundamentals, properties, and applications
- Examines nanodiamond nanobifiller derived polymeric nanocomposites
- Discusses a wide range of technical applications in aerospace, automobiles, coatings, corrosion resistance, shape memory, energy devices, and biomedical fields
Scientists and researchers from both academia and industry including material scientists, physicists, chemists, biologists, and other experts who are engaged in the research and development of high-performance polymer/nanodiamond nanocomposites, Postgraduate students studying nanoscience and technology especially advanced nanodiamond-based nanomaterials
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Nanodiamond: Structure, synthesis, properties, and applications
- 1.1. Introduction
- 1.2. Synthesis strategies
- 1.3. Structure and chemistry of nanodiamond
- 1.4. Essential technical applications
- 1.5. Summary
- Glossary
- 2. Polymer/nanodiamond nanocomposites: Fundamentals, fabrication and characteristics
- 2.1. Prologue
- 2.2. Fundamentals and theory of polymer-nanofiller nanocomposites
- 2.3. Reinforcement of nanodiamond in polymers
- 2.4. Dispersion and miscibility challenges
- 2.5. Surface modification of nanodiamond and polymer linking
- 2.6. Prospects and deductions
- Glossary
- 3. Development of nanodiamond nanobifiller-derived polymeric nanocomposites
- 3.1. Preamble
- 3.2. Nanobifiller derived nanocomposites
- 3.3. Potential technical benefits of using nanodiamond nanobifiller nanocomposites
- 3.4. Conclusions
- Glossary
- 4. Performance of thermosetting polymers containing nanodiamond nanofiller
- 4.1. Introduction
- 4.2. Thermosetting polymers: Epoxy resin and polyurethane
- 4.3. Epoxy/nanodiamond nanocomposites: Morphology, thermal, mechanical, wear, and rheology characteristics
- 4.4. Polyurethane/nanodiamond nanomaterials: Microscopic, mechanical, thermal, and other properties
- 4.5. Significance of thermosetting polymer/nanodiamond nanocomposites
- 4.6. Summation
- Glossary
- 5. Advances in thermoplastic polymer/nanodiamond nanomaterials
- 5.1. Prelude
- 5.2. Thermoplastic polymers
- 5.3. Nanodiamond in thermoplastic polymeric matrices: Polyamide, polyimide, polystyrene
- 5.4. Technical aspects of thermoplastic polymer/nanodiamond nanomaterials
- 5.5. Summary
- Glossary
- 6. Nanodiamond reinforced conducting polymer-based nanomaterials
- 6.1. Foreword
- 6.2. Conducting polymers
- 6.3. Polyaniline/nanodiamond nanomaterials
- 6.4. Polypyrrole nanocomposites with nanodiamond
- 6.5. Polythiophene and nanodiamond-based nanocomposites
- 6.6. Technical influence of conducting polymer/nanodiamond nanocomposites
- 6.7. Future advances and conclusions
- Glossary
- 7. Tribological performance of polymer/nanodiamond nanocomposites: Aerospace, automobile and engineered structures
- 7.1. Primer
- 7.2. Tribology of polymer/nanodiamond nanocomposites and friction mechanism
- 7.3. Thermally conducting polymer/nanodiamond for aerospace/automotive
- 7.4. Polymer/nanodiamond in lubricants
- 7.5. Electromagnetic shielding for transportation industry
- 7.6. Future advances and inferences
- Glossary
- 8. Potential of polymer/nanodiamond nanocomposites for radiation shielding and corrosion protection
- 8.1. Introduction
- 8.2. Nanodiamond in thermosetting and thermoplastic polymeric nanocomposites
- 8.3. Fabrication challenges of nanodiamond reinforced nanocomposites
- 8.4. What is radiation shielding?
- 8.5. Development of polymer nanocomposites as ionizing radiation shields
- 8.6. Nanodiamond nanocomposites for protection against ionizing radiations
- 8.7. Development of polymer nanocomposites as nonionizing radiation shields
- 8.8. Nanodiamond nanocomposites for protection against nonionizing radiations
- 8.9. Nanodiamond nanocomposites for corrosion and erosion protection
- 8.10. Analysis and conclusions on nanodiamond nanocomposites for radiation shielding and corrosion protection applications
- Glossary
- 9. Shape-memory polymer/nanodiamond nanocomposites: Design and functioning
- 9.1. Overture
- 9.2. Shape-memory polymers
- 9.3. Interpenetrating network nanocomposites with nanodiamond
- 9.4. Shape-memory behavior of polymer/nanodiamond nanocomposites
- 9.5. Future outlooks and presumptions
- Glossary
- 10. Polymer/nanodiamond nanocomposites in energy devices: Fuel cells, Li ion batteries and solar cells
- 10.1. Introduction
- 10.2. Application of nanodiamond in batteries
- 10.3. Application of nanodiamond in fuel cells
- 10.4. Application of nanodiamond in solar cells
- 10.5. Application of nanodiamonds in photovoltaic devices
- 10.6. Application of nanodiamond in energy storage devices
- 10.7. Conclusions
- Glossary
- 11. Biomedical applications of multifunctional polymer/nanodiamond nanocomposites
- 11.1. Preamble
- 11.2. Multifunctional polymer/nanodiamond for drug delivery
- 11.3. In tissue engineering
- 11.4. In biosensors
- 11.5. Imaging application: Fluorescent nanodiamond/nanocomposites
- 11.6. Challenges, trends, and conclusions
- Glossary
- 12. Polymer/nanodiamond nanocomposites toward industries and future impacts
- 12.1. Introduction
- 12.2. Polymer/nanodiamond nanocomposites: Transition from lab-scale to large-scale applications
- 12.3. Commercialization aspects and economic impacts
- 12.4. Environmental impacts
- 12.5. Challenges
- 12.6. Summary
- Glossary
- Glossary
- Index
- Edition: 1
- Published: June 14, 2024
- No. of pages (Paperback): 310
- No. of pages (eBook): 350
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780443159084
- eBook ISBN: 9780443159091
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Ayesha Kausar
Ayesha Kausar is affiliated with the National Centre for Physics, Islamabad, Pakistan. Her current research interests include design, fabrication, characterization, and exploration of structure-property relationships and potential prospects of nanocomposites, polymeric composites/nanocomposites, nanoparticles/polymeric nanoparticles, quantum dots, nanocarbons (graphene, carbon nanotube, nanodiamond, fullerene, etc.), inorganics/hybrid materials, nanofibers, nano-foam architectures, etc. Other book by Dr. Kausar in the nano/materials science and technology fields contributions to include Graphene Quantum Dots and Their Derived Nanocomposites: Fundamentals and Applications, 2025, Three-Dimensional Graphene Nanocomposites: Design, Characteristics, and Technical Potential, 2025, Polymer/Nanodiamond Nanocomposites: Fundamentals, Properties and Applications, 2024, Shape Memory Polymer-Derived Nanocomposites: Materials, Properties, and Applications, 2024, Polymer/Fullerene Nanocomposites: Design and Applications, 2023, Polymeric Nanocomposites with Carbonaceous Nanofillers for Aerospace Applications, 2022, Graphene to Polymer/Graphene Nanocomposites: Emerging Research and Opportunities, 2021, Conducting Polymer-Based Nanocomposites: Fundamentals and Applications, 2021 and Electrical Conductivity in Polymer-Based Composites: Experiments, Modelling, and Applications, 2018.
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