Shape Memory Polymer-Derived Nanocomposites
Materials, Properties, and Applications
- 1st Edition - January 10, 2024
- Latest edition
- Author: Ayesha Kausar
- Language: English
Shape Memory Polymer derived Nanocomposites: Materials, Properties, and Applications summarizes fundamentals and applications of shape memory polymer derived nanocompo… Read more
Shape Memory Polymer derived Nanocomposites: Materials, Properties, and Applications summarizes fundamentals and applications of shape memory polymer derived nanocomposites. The book presents a state-of-the-art assessment, including updates on their flexibility, durability, heat stability, shape deformability, and the shape memory features of these polymers. Essential categories of the stimuli-responsive polymer-based nanocomposites are discussed in terms of recent scientific literature, and subsequent sections of the book are dedicated to the potential of shape memory polymer-based nanocomposite in various technical fields.
- Provides the essentials of shape memory polymeric nanocomposites
- Includes important categories of shape memory nanocomposites
- Presents current technological applications of shape memory polymers and derived nanocomposite in sponges, aerospace, EMI shielding, ionizing radiation shielding, sensors, actuator, supercapacitor, electronics, and biomedical fields
2. Shape memory polymer-based nanocomposites
3. Polyurethane in shape memory nanomaterials
4. Epoxy-based nanocomposites as emerging stimuli-responsive materials
5. Perspectives on stimuli-sensitive polyester nanocomposites
6. Shape memory polystyrene and trans-1,4-polyisoprene (TPI) derived nanocomposites
7. Cutting-edge shape memory nanocomposite sponges
8. Shape memory nanomaterials in aerospace
9. Electromagnetic interference shielding and ionizing radiation shielding effect of stimuli-responsive nanocomposites
10. Multipurpose shape memory nanocomposites: Sensors, actuators, supercapacitors, electronics, and smart textiles
11. Versatile shape memory nanocomposites: Technological platform for biomedical applications
12. Modelling and simulation for shape memory nanocomposites
13. Future of shape memory nanocomposites: 3D and 4D printing, sustainability, and green nanomaterials
- Edition: 1
- Latest edition
- Published: January 10, 2024
- Language: English
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Ayesha Kausar
Prof. Dr. Ayesha Kausar is affiliated with 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. Dr. Kausar’s contributions to nano/materials science and technology fields include > 680 scientific publications in international peer-reviewed journals. Till now, she has contributed 10 Elsevier authored monographs as (i) “Multifunctional Carbon Nano-Onions Based Nanocomposites: Fundamentals, Design and Applications”, 2026; (ii) “Graphene Quantum Dots and Their Derived Nanocomposites: Fundamentals and Applications”, 2025; (iii) “Three-Dimensional Graphene Nanocomposites: Design, Characteristics, and Technical Potential”, 2025; (iv) “Polymer/Nanodiamond Nanocomposites: Fundamentals, Properties and Applications” 2024; (v) “Shape Memory Polymer-Derived Nanocomposites: Materials, Properties, and Applications, 2024; (vi) “Polymer/Fullerene Nanocomposites: Design and Applications” 2023; (vii) “Polymeric Nanocomposites with Carbonaceous Nanofillers for Aerospace Applications” 2022; (viii) “Graphene to Polymer/Graphene Nanocomposites: Emerging Research and Opportunities” 2021; (x) “Conducting Polymer-Based Nanocomposites: Fundamentals and Applications” 2021; (ix) “Electrical Conductivity in Polymer-Based Composites: Experiments, Modelling, and Applications” 2018. Moreover, she contributed book chapters to > 150 international Books and Encyclopaedias. Her name has been listed in the world’s Top 2% of scientists in the field of materials science & technology/nanotechnology in surveys conducted by Stanford University to recognize, in recent years.