Advanced Lightweight Multifunctional Materials

ISBN-13: 9780128185018 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 510 str.

Pedro Costa; Carlos M. Costa; Senentxu Lanceros-Mendez

Spis treści

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

O autorze

Pedro Costa graduated in Physics and obtained his PhD degree in Materials Engineering at the University of Minho, Portugal in 2013. He is currently a researcher at the same university working in polymer-based composites for energy harvesting, sensors and actuator applications. He participates in several international conferences, has published in scientific journals and has one patent registered. His research interests are in the field of polymer-based smart material composites and their applications, including energy harvesting and generation. Carlos M. Costa obtained his PhD degree in Physics at the University of Minho, Portugal in 2014. He is currently a researcher at the same university and his work is focused on the development of advanced polymer composites and new materials and formulations for sensors, actuator and energy storage applications including lithium-ion batteries and printed batteries. He has over 100 published papers. Prof. S. Lanceros-Mendez is currently the Ikerbasque Professor and Scientific Director at the Basque Center for Materials, Applications and Nanostructures, Leioa, Spain. He is also Associate Professor at the Physics Department of the University of Minho, Portugal (on leave), where he belongs to the Center of Physics. His work is focused in the area of smart and functional materials for sensors and actuators, energy and biomedical applications, with over 450 ISI publications in the field, three edited books, over 14 book chapters and 9 patents.