Polymer Nanocomposites Fabrication to Applications

"Polymer Nanocomposites: Fabrication to Applications offers the readers an up-to-date interpretation of various polymeric nanocomposite materials and technologies via critical reviews. It covers developments and advancements in various nanomaterials, polymeric materials, biopolymers, and processes. It initiates from nanomaterials synthesis, fabrication, characterization to the manufacturing aspect and feasible product applications of the polymer-based nanocomposites. The prime focus on polymer matrix nanocomposites and their future trends in the engineering sector. It explores synthesis, characterization, properties, fabrication/processing, and application of polymer nanocomposite materials and elaborates polymer manufacturing phase challenges using various control methods and statistical tools and modules. The book includes machining and micro machining investigation on the polymer nanocomposites and discusses modeling, simulation and optimization of process parameters during the machining processes and application of additive manufacturing. It comprehends the significance of Nanomaterials functionalizing synthetic fibrous and bio-compatible composites. This book is aimed at researchers and graduate students in mechanical engineering, materials science, polymers, composites, and nanomaterials"--