About the Book
Hybrid Nanofillers for Polymer Reinforcement: Synthesis, Assembly, Characterization, and Applications provides a targeted approach to hybrid nanostructures, enabling the development of these advanced nanomaterials for specific applications. The book begins by reviewing the status of hybrid nanostructures, their current applications, and future opportunities. This is followed by chapters examining synthesis and characterization techniques, as well as interactions within nanohybrid systems. The second part of the book provides detailed chapters each highlighting a particular application area and discussing the preparation of various hybrid nano systems that can potentially be utilized in that area.
The last chapters turn towards notable state-of-the-art hybrid nanomaterials and their properties and applications. This book is a valuable resource for researchers and advanced students across polymer science, nanotechnology, rubber technology, chemistry, sustainable materials, and materials engineering, as well as scientists, engineers, and R&D professionals with an interest in hybrid nanostructures or advanced nanomaterials for a industrial application.
Table of Contents:
Part 1: Introduction to hybrid nanostructures and systems
1. Introduction to hybrid nanomaterials: future perspective and applications
2. Synthesis of hybrid nanostructures of polymer
3. Specific interactions in nanohybrid systems
Part 2: Applications of hybrid nanofillers
4. Nanoparticles functionalized biopolymer composites and their biomedical applications
5. Hybrid nanofillers for electronic applications
6. Hybrid nanomaterials as semiconductors
7. Applications of hybrid nanosystems in electromagnetic interference shielding
8. Hybrid nanoparticles for sensors
9. Advanced elastomeric hybrid materials for soft sensors
10. Hybrid nanosystems in wastewater treatment
11. Hybrid nanoparticles in building materials
Part 3: Advanced hybrid polymer nanocomposites
12. Synthesis and applications of hybrid ceramic polymer nanocomposites
13. Elastomeric hybrid nanosystems for multifunctional applications
14. Hybrid nanofillers for polymer-based energy storage applications
15. Hybrid nanofillers in the epoxy system and their potential applications
16. Hybrid nanofillers and triboelectric generators
17. Hybrid nanofillers for flame-retardant polymer applications
18. Hybrid nanomaterial-based polymers for construction industry
About the Author :
Sabu Thomas is the chairman at the Trivandrum Engineering Science and Technology Research Park (TrEST Research Park) and the former vice chancellor at the Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala, India. He is also the director at the School of Energy Materials, the School of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, and the International and Inter University Centre for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology. Prof. Thomas is also the former director at the School of Chemical Sciences and the founder of the School of Polymer Science and Technology, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala, India. He received his Ph. D. in 1987 in Polymer Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kharagpur, India. He has been ranked no.1 in India about the number of publications (most productive scientists). Prof. Thomas’s research group specialized areas of polymers which includes Polymer blends, Fiber filled polymer composites, Particulate-filled polymer composites and their morphological characterization, Ageing and degradation, Pervaporation phenomena, sorption and diffusion, Interpenetrating polymer systems, Recyclability and reuse of waste plastics and rubbers, Elastomer cross-linking, Dual porous nanocomposite scaffolds for tissue engineering, etc. Prof. Thomas’s research group has extensive exchange programs with different industries, research, and academic institutions all over the world and is performing world-class collaborative research in various fields. Professors Centre is equipped with various sophisticated instruments and has established state-of-the-art experimental facilities which cater to the needs of researchers within the country and abroad. His H Index- 133, Google Citations- 86424, Number of Publications- 1300, and Books-160.
Prof. Allisson Saiter-Fourcin is a full professor of physics since 2017. She is responsible for the Department “Desordered Systems and Polymers of the GPM laboratory (UMR CNRS 6634) since 2022, and responsible for the International Master’s Degree in Materials Sciences since 2016, at the University of Normandy, Rouen, France. She completed her PhD in Physics of Materials in 2002 at the University of Normandy, Rouen, France. Her research interests include advanced nanomaterials, glass transition, calorimetric analysis, glass forming liquids, structural relaxation phenomena, and physical ageing. She has 83 publications in international journals and has written two books. Keloth Paduvilan Jibin is an assistant professor at the Department of Chemistry, Mahatma Gandhi College, Iritty Kannur, Kerala, India. He completed his Master of Science degree in Analytical Chemistry in 2016, and was ranked first in the MSc Analytical Chemistry at Mahatma Gandhi University. Jibin has presented several papers at national and international conferences. As part of his work on nanomaterials, he has been involved in projects on optical studies of samarium complexes, synthesized using curcumin, isolated from turmeric extract as ligand, and on the synthesis of Mg and Co co-doped ZnO-based diluted magnetic semi-conductors, for optoelectronic applications. Currently he is working in the area of hybrid polymer nanocomposites for engineering applications. He has published 10 journal articles, more than 10 book chapters and edited two books.
