Radiation Technology for Advanced Materials

Radiation Technology for Advanced Materials presents a range of radiation technology applications for advanced materials. The book aims to bridge the gap between researchers and industry, describing current uses and future prospects. It describes the mature radiation processing technology used in preparing heat shrinkable materials and in wire and cable materials, giving commercial cases. In addition, the book illustrates future applications, including high-performance fibers, special self-lubricating materials, special ultra-fine powder materials, civil fibers, natural polymeric materials, battery separator membranes, special filtration materials and metallic nanomaterials.

Chapters cover radiation technology in high-performance fiber and functional textiles, radiation crosslinking and typical applications, radiation crosslinking for polymer foaming material, radiation degradation and application, radiation emulsion polymerization, radiation effects of ionic liquids, radiation technology in advanced new materials, and future prospects.

• Presents a range of radiation technology applications and their application to advanced materials
• Covers the mature radiation processing technology used to prepare heat shrinkable materials and wire cable materials, describing real-world commercial applications
• Shows the promising application of radiation technology in preparing high-performance Si and carbon fibers
• Describes the radiation degradation/radiation effect used to prepare fine powder materials
• Discusses radiation modification and radiation grafting techniques used to synthesize materials, such as civil fibers, natural polymeric materials and others

Researchers in academia and industry applying radiation technology to polymer processing and advanced materials; researchers and graduate students in applied physics, applied chemistry, molecular engineering, soft matter chemistry and polymer science; and senior engineers from industry and the academy

Chapter 1. Radiation technology in high-performance fiber and functional textiles
  1.1 basic principles of application radiation for advance material development

1.1 2Application of radiation technology in carbon fiber and SiC fiber
1.2 3 Radiation modification of ultra high molecular weight polyethylene fiber
1.3 4 Application of radiation surface modification in fabrication of advanced composite materials
1.4 Radiation grafting for fabrication of functional textiles
Chapter 2. Radiation crosslinking and some typical applications
2.1 Crosslinked cables, wires and shrinkable materials
2.2 Radiation vulcanization of rubber and the application in tires of car industry…
2.3 Radiation crosslinking of latex
Chapter 3 Radiation crosslinking for polymer foaming material
3.1 Polymer micro-foaming materials;
3.2 Supercritcal CO2 foaming
3.3 Radiation crosslinking and foaming
Chapter 4. Radiation degradation and application
4.1 Radiation degradation of PTFE and its application
4.1 Radiation degradation for the fabrication of micropowder materials
4.2 Radiation degradation of natural materials
Chapter 5. Radiation emulsion polymerization
5.1 Radiation for Emulsion polymerization;
5.2 Various types radiation emulsion polymerization
5.3 Radiation emulsion polymerization for the industrial fabrication of textile adhesives
5.4 Radiation inverse emulsion polymerization for industrial production of thickening agents
Chapter 6. Radiation effects of ionic liquids
6.1 Ionic liquids and extraction systems;
6.2 Gama radiation effects in imidazolium ionic liquids;
6.3 Alpha radiation effects in imidazolium ionic liquids
6.4 Radiation effects in extraction efficiency of ionic liquid/ crown ether system
6.5 Radiation synthesis of ionic liquid gels
Chapter 7. Radiation Technology in advanced new materials
7.1 Radiation synthesis of ion exchange membranes;
7.2 Radiation synthesis of graphene
7.3 Radiation preparation of multi-porous polymer materials;
7.4 Radiation preparation of nano-materials
Chapter 8  Summarization and prospect