
Advanced Lightweight Multifunctional Materials
Description
Key Features
- 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
Readership
Academic researchers, materials scientists and industrial engineers working in the area of multifunctional materials, composites and nanocomposites
Table of Contents
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
Product details
- No. of pages: 550
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Woodhead Publishing 2020
- Published: November 19, 2020
- Imprint: Woodhead Publishing
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128185018
- eBook ISBN: 9780128185025
About the Editors
Pedro Costa
Affiliations and Expertise
Carlos Costa
Affiliations and Expertise
Senentxu Lanceros-Mendez
Affiliations and Expertise
Ratings and Reviews
Latest reviews
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DIPANJAN S. Mon Mar 02 2020
Advances of Electrochromic and electro-rheological materials
Excellent