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Book Carbon Nanotube Polymer Composites

Download or read book Carbon Nanotube Polymer Composites written by Dimitrios Tasis and published by Royal Society of Chemistry. This book was released on 2015-11-09 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chemically-modified carbon nanotubes (CNTs) exhibit a wide range of physical and chemical properties which makes them an attractive starting material for the preparation of super-strong and highly-conductive fibres and films. Much information is available across the primary literature, making it difficult to obtain an overall picture of the state-of-the-art. This volume brings together some of the leading researchers in the field from across the globe to present the potential these materials have, not only in developing and characterising novel materials but also the devices which can be fabricated from them. Topics featured in the book include Raman characterisation, industrial polymer materials, actuators and sensors and polymer reinforcement, with chapters prepared by highly-cited authors from across the globe. A valuable handbook for any academic or industrial laboratory, this book will appeal to newcomers to the field and established researchers alike.

Book Carbon Nanotubes

    Book Details:
  • Author : Mohamed Berber
  • Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
  • Release : 2016-07-20
  • ISBN : 9535124692
  • Pages : 508 pages

Download or read book Carbon Nanotubes written by Mohamed Berber and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2016-07-20 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shows the recent advances of the applications of carbon nanotubes (CNTs), in particular, the polymer functionalized carbon nanotubes. It also includes a comprehensive description of carbon nanotubes' preparation, properties, and characterization. Therefore, we have attempted to provide detailed information about the polymer-carbon nanotube composites. With regard to the unique structure and properties of carbon nanotubes, a series of important findings have been reported. The unique properties of carbon nanotubes, including thermal, mechanical, and electrical properties, after polymer functionalization have been documented in detail. This book comprises 18 chapters. The chapters include different applications of polymer functionalization CNTs, e.g. photovoltaic, biomedical, drug delivery, gene delivery, stem cell therapy, thermal therapy, biological detection and imaging, electroanalytical, energy, supercapacitor, and gas sensor applications.

Book Carbon Nanotube Based Composites

Download or read book Carbon Nanotube Based Composites written by Antonio Pantano and published by Smithers Rapra. This book was released on 2012-09-28 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have amazing properties and a key way to take advantage of this is by incorporating nanotubes into a matrix to build composite materials. The best candidates for this task are undoubtedly polymers. Almost every characteristic of a polymer can be significantly enhanced by adding carbon nanotubes and as a result, new potential applications of carbon nanotube enhanced polymer composites are discovered every day. However, before carbon nanotube enhanced polymer composites become commonplace there are some tough challenges that need to be overcome. This book reviews the status of worldwide research in both single-walled and multi-walled carbon nanotube based composites. It serves as a practical guide on carbon nanotube based composites and a reference to students and researchers from the academia and industry.

Book Carbon Nanotube Reinforced Composites

Download or read book Carbon Nanotube Reinforced Composites written by Marcio Loos and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2014-09-11 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carbon Nanotube Reinforced Composites introduces a wide audience of engineers, scientists and product designers to this important and rapidly expanding class of high performance composites. Dr Loos provides readers with the scientific fundamentals of carbon nanotubes (CNTs), CNT composites and nanotechnology in a way which will enable them to understand the performance, capability and potential of the materials under discussion. He also investigates how CNT reinforcement can be used to enhance the mechanical, electrical and thermal properties of polymer composites. Production methods, processing technologies and applications are fully examined, with reference to relevant patents. Finally, health and safety issues related to the use of CNTs are investigated. Dr. Loos compares the theoretical expectations of using CNTs to the results obtained in labs, and explains the reasons for the discrepancy between theoretical and experimental results. This approach makes the book an essential reference and practical guide for engineers and product developers working with reinforced polymers – as well as researchers and students in polymer science, materials and nanotechnology. A wealth of applications information is included, taken from the wide range of industry sectors utilizing CNT reinforced composites, such as energy, coatings, defense, electronics, medical devices, and high performance sports equipment. - Introduces a wide range of readers involved in plastics engineering, product design and manufacturing to the relevant topics in nano-science, nanotechnology, nanotubes and composites. - Assesses effects of CNTs as reinforcing agents, both in a materials context and an applications setting. - Focuses on applications aspects – performance, cost, health and safety, etc – for a wide range of industry sectors, e.g. energy, coatings, defense, electronics, medical devices, high performance sports equipment, etc.

Book Carbon Nanotube Polymer Composites

Download or read book Carbon Nanotube Polymer Composites written by Brian P. Grady and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-07-08 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The accessible compendium of polymers in carbon nanotubes (CNTs) Carbon nanotubes (CNTs)—extremely thin tubes only a few nanometers in diameter but able to attain lengths thousands of times greater—are prime candidates for use in the development of polymer composite materials. Bringing together thousands of disparate research works, Carbon Nanotube-Polymer Composites: Manufacture, Properties, and Applications covers CNT-polymers from synthesis to potential applications, presenting the basic science and engineering of this dynamic and complex area in an accessible, readable way. Designed to be of use to polymer scientists, engineers, chemists, physicists, and materials scientists, the book covers carbon nanotube fundamentals to help polymer experts understand CNTs, and polymer physics to help those in the CNT field, making it an invaluable resource for anyone working with CNT-polymer composites. Detailed chapters describe the mechanical, rheological, electrical, and thermal properties of carbon nanotube-polymer composites. Including a glossary that defines key terms, Carbon Nanotube-Polymer Composites is essential reading for anyone looking to gain a fundamental understanding of CNTs and polymers, as well as potential and current applications, including electronics (shielding and transparent electrodes), flame retardants, and electromechanics (sensors and actuators), and their challenges.

Book Segregated Network Polymer carbon Nanotubes Composites for Thermoelectrics

Download or read book Segregated Network Polymer carbon Nanotubes Composites for Thermoelectrics written by Dasaroyong Kim and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Polymers are intrinsically poor thermal conductors, which are ideal for thermoelectrics, but low electrical conductivity and thermopower have excluded them as feasible candidates as thermoelectric materials in the past. However, recent progress in polymer technology, particularly nanomaterial-polymer composites, can bring them into degenerate semiconductor or metallic regimes by incorporating a small amount of conductive filler. I demonstrate that such polymer nanocomposites can be viable for light-weight and economical thermoelectrics by using a segregated network approach for the nanocomposite synthesis. The thermoelectric properties were further improved by a change of stabilizer and drying conditions. The thermoelectric properties of the segregated network nanocomposites were measured for carbon nanotubes and the thermoelectric figure of merit, ZT, was calculated at room temperature. The influence on thermoelectric properties from filler concentration, stabilizer materials and drying condition are also discussed.

Book Carbon Nanotubes

    Book Details:
  • Author : Siva Yellampalli
  • Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
  • Release : 2011-08-17
  • ISBN : 9533074981
  • Pages : 414 pages

Download or read book Carbon Nanotubes written by Siva Yellampalli and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2011-08-17 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Polymer nanocomposites are a class of material with a great deal of promise for potential applications in various industries ranging from construction to aerospace. The main difference between polymeric nanocomposites and conventional composites is the filler that is being used for reinforcement. In the nanocomposites the reinforcement is on the order of nanometer that leads to a very different final macroscopic property. Due to this unique feature polymeric nanocomposites have been studied exclusively in the last decade using various nanofillers such as minerals, sheets or fibers. This books focuses on the preparation and property analysis of polymer nanocomposites with CNTs (fibers) as nano fillers. The book has been divided into three sections. The first section deals with fabrication and property analysis of new carbon nanotube structures. The second section deals with preparation and characterization of polymer composites with CNTs followed by the various applications of polymers with CNTs in the third section.

Book Fundamentals of Conjugated Polymer Blends  Copolymers and Composites

Download or read book Fundamentals of Conjugated Polymer Blends Copolymers and Composites written by Parveen Saini and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-04-30 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since their discovery in 1977, the evolution of conducting polymers has revolutionized modern science and technology. These polymers enjoy a special status in the area of materials science yet they are not as popular among young readers or common people when compared to other materials like metals, paper, plastics, rubber, textiles, ceramics and composites like concrete. Most importantly, much of the available literature in the form of papers, specific review articles and books is targeted either at advanced readers (scientists / technologists / engineers / senior academicians) or for those who are already familiar with the topic (doctoral / postdoctoral scholars). For a beginner or even school / college students, such compilations are bit difficult to access / digest. In fact, they need proper introduction to the topic of conducting polymers including their discovery, preparation, properties, applications and societal impact, using suitable examples and already known principles/knowledge/phenomenon. Further, active participation of readers in terms of "question & answers", "fill-in-the-blanks", "numerical" along with suitable answer key is necessary to maintain the interest and to initiate the "thought process". The readers also need to know about the drawbacks and any hazards of such materials. Therefore, I believe that a comprehensive source on the science / technology of conducting polymers which maintains a link between grass root fundamentals and state-of-the-art R&D is still missing from the open literature.

Book Effect of Carbon Filler Characteristics on the Electrical Properties of Conductive Polymer Composites Possessing Segregated Network Microstructures

Download or read book Effect of Carbon Filler Characteristics on the Electrical Properties of Conductive Polymer Composites Possessing Segregated Network Microstructures written by Laurissa Alia Prystaj and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis focused on making composites consisting of a polymethylmethacrylate matrix, with various carbon fillers. The fillers that were examined were 3 different carbon blacks: N-550, N-772 and pureblack, and short multi-wall carbon nano-tubes. The carbon fillers were coated onto the polymethylmethacrylate, and compression molded in order to form a segregated microstructure. The goal of this thesis is to compare the electrical and optical properties of the composites consisting of a segregated microstructure, containing various carbon fillers. Scanning electron microscopy was used to investigate the fracture surface of the composites. Impedance Spectroscopy measured the electrical response of the material, and was used to determine the conductivity and dielectric properties of the composites and estimate the percolation threshold. The multi-wall carbon nano-tubes were found to have the lowest percolation threshold, due to their rod like structure. All of the carbon black fillers displayed similar characteristics in their conductivity and dielectric properties. As the filler content increased, the conductivity and the dielectric constant of the composites increased.

Book Polymer Carbon Nanotube Composites

Download or read book Polymer Carbon Nanotube Composites written by Tony McNally and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2011-03-28 with total page 849 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding the properties of polymer carbon nanotube (CNT) composites is the key to these materials finding new applications in a wide range of industries, including but not limited to electronics, aerospace and biomedical/bioengineering. Polymer-carbon nanotube composites provides comprehensive and in-depth coverage of the preparation, characterisation, properties and applications of these technologically interesting new materials.Part one covers the preparation and processing of composites of thermoplastics with CNTs, with chapters covering in-situ polymerization, melt processing and CNT surface treatment, as well as elastomer and thermoset CNT composites. Part two concentrates on properties and characterization, including chapters on the quantification of CNT dispersion using microscopy techniques, and on topics as diverse as thermal degradation of polymer/CNT composites, the use of rheology, Raman spectroscopy and multi-scale modelling to study polymer/CNT composites, and CNT toxicity. In part three, the applications of polymer/CNT composites are reviewed, with chapters on specific applications such as in fibres and cables, bioengineering applications and conductive polymer CNT composites for sensing.With its distinguished editors and international team of contributors, Polymer-carbon nanotube composites is an essential reference for scientists, engineers and designers in high-tech industry and academia with an interest in polymer nanotechnology and nanocomposites. - Provides comprehensive and in-depth coverage of the preparation, characterisation and properties of these technologically interesting new materials - Reviews the preparation and processing of composites of thermoplastics with CNTs, covering in-situ polymerization, melt processing and CNT surface treatment - Explores applications of polymer/CNT composites such as in fibres and cables, bioengineering applications and conductive polymer CNT composites for sensing

Book Carbon Nanotube Polymer Nanocomposites

Download or read book Carbon Nanotube Polymer Nanocomposites written by Srikanta Moharana and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 493 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Carbon Nanotubes for Polymer Reinforcement

Download or read book Carbon Nanotubes for Polymer Reinforcement written by Peng-Cheng Ma and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2011-03-22 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discovered in the twentieth century, carbon nanotubes (CNT) were an integral part of science and industry by the beginning of the twenty first century, revolutionizing chemistry, physics, and materials science. More recent advances in carbon nanotube production methods have resulted in a tremendous push to incorporate CNTs into polymer matrices. Al

Book Handbook of Polymers

Download or read book Handbook of Polymers written by George Wypych and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2022-03-19 with total page 751 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Handbook of Polymers, Third Edition represents an update on available data, including new values for many commercially available products, verification of existing data, and removal of older data where it is no longer useful. Polymers selected for this edition include all primary polymeric materials used by the plastics and chemical industries and specialty polymers used in the electronics, pharmaceutical, medical and aerospace fields, with extensive information also provided on biopolymers. The book includes data on all polymeric materials used by the plastics industry and branches of the chemical industry, as well as specialty polymers in the electronics, pharmaceutical, medical and space fields. The entire scope of the data is divided into sections to make data comparison and search easy, including synthesis, physical, mechanical, and rheological properties, chemical resistance, toxicity, environmental impact, and more. - Provides key data on all primary polymeric materials used in a wide range of industries and applications - Presents easy-to-access data divided into sections, making comparisons and search simple and intuitive - Includes data on general properties, history, synthesis, structure, physical properties, mechanical properties, chemical resistance, flammability, weather stability, toxicity, and more

Book Polymer Nanocomposite Materials

Download or read book Polymer Nanocomposite Materials written by Ye Zhou and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2021-03-24 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Polymer Nanocomposite Materials Discover an authoritative overview of zero-, one-, and two-dimensional polymer nanomaterials Polymer Nanocomposite Materials: Applications in Integrated Electronic Devices delivers an original and insightful treatment of polymer nanocomposite applications in energy, information, and biotechnology. The book systematically reviews the preparation and characterization of polymer nanocomposites from zero-, one-, and two-dimensional nanomaterials. The two distinguished editors have selected resources that thoroughly explore the applications of polymer nanocomposites in energy, information, and biotechnology devices like sensors, solar cells, data storage devices, and artificial synapses. Academic researchers and professional developers alike will enjoy one of the first books on the subject of this environmentally friendly and versatile new technology. Polymer Nanocomposite Materials discusses challenges associated with the devices and materials, possible strategies for future directions of the technology, and the possible commercial applications of electronic devices built on these materials. Readers will also benefit from the inclusion of: A thorough introduction to the fabrication of conductive polymer composites and their applications in sensors An exploration of biodegradable polymer nanocomposites for electronics and polymer nanocomposites for photodetectors Practical discussions of polymer nanocomposites for pressure sensors and the application of polymer nanocomposites in energy storage devices An examination of functional polymer nanocomposites for triboelectric nanogenerators and resistive switching memory Perfect for materials scientists and polymer chemists, Polymer Nanocomposite Materials: Applications in Integrated Electronic Devices will also earn a place in the libraries of sensor developers, electrical engineers, and other professionals working in the sensor industry seeking an authoritative one-stop reference for nanocomposite applications.

Book Carbon Nanotube Reinforced Polymers

Download or read book Carbon Nanotube Reinforced Polymers written by Roham Rafiee and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2017-10-06 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carbon Nanotube-Reinforced Polymers: From Nanoscale to Macroscale addresses the advances in nanotechnology that have led to the development of a new class of composite materials known as CNT-reinforced polymers. The low density and high aspect ratio, together with their exceptional mechanical, electrical and thermal properties, render carbon nanotubes as a good reinforcing agent for composites. In addition, these simulation and modeling techniques play a significant role in characterizing their properties and understanding their mechanical behavior, and are thus discussed and demonstrated in this comprehensive book that presents the state-of-the-art research in the field of modeling, characterization and processing. The book separates the theoretical studies on the mechanical properties of CNTs and their composites into atomistic modeling and continuum mechanics-based approaches, including both analytical and numerical ones, along with multi-scale modeling techniques. Different efforts have been done in this field to address the mechanical behavior of isolated CNTs and their composites by numerous researchers, signaling that this area of study is ongoing. - Explains modeling approaches to carbon nanotubes, together with their application, strengths and limitations - Outlines the properties of different carbon nanotube-based composites, exploring how they are used in the mechanical and structural components - Analyzes the behavior of carbon nanotube-based composites in different conditions

Book Carbon Based Conductive Polymer Composites

Download or read book Carbon Based Conductive Polymer Composites written by Dong Xiang and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2023-02-10 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carbon nanomaterials can transfer their excellent electrical conductivity to polymers while enhancing or maintaining their original mechanical properties. Conductive polymer composites based on carbon nanomaterials are finding increasing applications in aerospace, automotive, and electronic industries when flexibility or lightweight is required. Carbon-Based Conductive Polymer Composites: Processing, Properties, and Applications in Flexible Strain Sensors summarizes recent remarkable achievements in the processing–structure–property relationship of conductive polymer composites based on carbon nanomaterials. It also discusses research developments for their application in flexible strain sensors and novel processing methods like additive manufacturing. Presents the state of the art in conductive composite materials and their application in flexible strain sensors. Uniquely combines the processing, structure, properties, and applications of conductive polymer composites. Integrates theory and practice. Benefits plastics converters who wish to take full advantage of the potential of conductive plastic materials. This book is written for material scientists and engineers researching and applying these advanced materials for a variety of applications.