Industrial Applications for Intelligent Polymers and Coatings

ISBN-13: 9783319800363 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 710 str.

Majid Hosseini; Abdel Salam Hamdy Makhlouf

Spis treści

Smart Stimuli-Responsive Polymeric Based Nanocarriers for Drug Delivery.- Stimuli Responsive Smart Polymeric Coatings: An Overview.- Electroactive Polymers and Coatings.- Characterization and Performance of Stress and Damage Sensing Smart Coatings.- Smart Polymer Surfaces.- Smart Textile Transducers:  Design, Techniques and Applications.- Smart Polymers: Strategies of the Synthesis and Encapsulation.- Functions of Bioactive and Intelligent Natural Polymers in the Optimization of Drug Delivery.- Outlook of Aptamer-Based Smart Materials for Industrial Applications.- Water Repellent Polymer-Nanoparticle Composite Films.- Application of Conducting Polymers in Solar Water-Splitting Catalysis.- Smart Biopolymers in Food Industry.- Designing Self-healing Polymers by Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization and Click Chemistry.- Polyurethane-Based Smart Polymers.- Piezoelectric PVDF Polymeric Films and Fibers: Polymorphisms, Measurement and Applications.- Multifunctional Materials for Biotechnology – Opportunities and Challenges.- Nanocomposite polymeric-Based Coatings: From Mathematical Modeling to Experimental Insights for Adapting Microstructure to High-Tech Requirements.- Nanocomposite Polymer-Based Coatings for Anti-Corrosion Applications.- Amphiphilic Invertible Polymers and their Applications.- Smart Coatings for Corrosion Protection.- Smart Textiles Supercapacitors Coated with Conducting Polymers for Energy Storage Applications.- Self-Healing Coatings for Corrosion Protection of Steel.- Introduction and Overview of Silane-Based Polymer Coating and its Application.- Smart Self-Healing Based Polymers for Corrosion and Mechanical Damages Indication and Prevention: From Principles to Application.- Optical Sensor Coating Development for Industrial Applications.- Sensory Polymers for Detecting Explosives and Chemical Warfare Agents.- Smart Polymeric-based Microencapsulation: A Promising Synergic Combination.- Adhesion of Polymer Coatings Principles and Evaluation.- Smart Polymer Nanoparticles for High Performance Water-based Coatings.- Radiation (UV/EB/IR) Curable Smart Coatings.- New Functional Composite Silane-Zeolite Coatings for Adsorption Heat Pump Applications.- Intercalation of Poly[oligo(ethylene glycol)-oxalate] into Lithium Hectorite.

O autorze

Dr. Majid Hosseini has earned both his Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Chemical Engineering from The University of Akron in Ohio, United States. He has also completed his Bachelors degree in Chemical Engineering at Sharif University of Technology in Tehran, Iran. Dr. Hosseini’s research interests, expertise, and experiences are very diverse, ranging from intelligent polymers and coatings  to micro/encapsulation, nanoparticles for biomedical applications, industrial biotechnology, renewable energies, bioprocess engineering and developement, and biofuels. Dr. Hosseini has been actively engaged in various fields of polymers, bio/nanotechnology, sustainability, biofuels, and related technology development both in industry and academia. He is a persistent reviewer of leading international journals, has published high caliber research articles, and co-invented US and international patent application technologies. Dr. Hosseini has been a member of several professional bodies in the USA including  The New York Academy of Sciences, American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AICHE), AICHE-Institute for Sustainability, AICHE-SBE (Society of Biological Engineering), New Design Institute for Emergency Relief Systems (DIERS), International Society for Pharmaceutical Engineering (ISPE), AICHE-Pharmaceutical Discovery, Development and Manufacturing Forum, and The National Society of Collegiate Scholars. 

Dr. Abdel Salam Hamdy Makhlouf is RGV STAR Professor in the Manufacturing & Industrial Engineering Department at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley.  He is a multiple-award winner for his academic excellence: He received several prestigious awards in Germany (Humboldt Research Award for Experienced Scientists at Max Planck Institute); USA (Fulbright Visiting Scholar, NSF Fellow, and Dept. of Energy Fellow); Belgium (Belgian Federal Science Research Fellowship); Arab League (Arab Youth Excellence Award in Innovation 2013), Jordan (Abdul Hameed Shoman Award in Engineering Science 2012); Egypt (National Prize of Egypt in Advanced Science and Technology 2006; Egyptian Prize of Excellence in Surface Technology and Corrosion 2006; and Egyptian Prize of Excellence and Innovation in Materials Science and their Applications 2009); and Palestine (An-Najah Prize for Research 2014). His biography was selected to be included in Who's Who in the World® 2015, 2007 and 2006. He is Senior Editor of Insciences Journal, Nanotechnology Section, (Switzerland), Associate Editor: J. Nanostructure in Chemistry, Springer, and Associate Editor-in-Chief of the Int'l Journal of Applied Sciences. His research interests include preparation and characterization of advanced coatings, corrosion, nanomaterials, biomaterials, renewable energy and advanced materials and polymers. His publication list (+170) includes studies and review papers authored in journals from top publishers. He is the editor of 10 books and 20 book chapters. He supervised and graduated 11 PhD and Master’s students, and 5 postdoctoral fellows. He is a persistent journal reviewer, advisor, and judge of the work of his peers. He is a referee for over 30 int’l journals of a high caliber, and a continued board member of over 22 journals. He is also an experienced Editor with board titles at journals published by Springer and Elsevier, an Expert Evaluator for the EU’s FP7, with an estimated budget of over €50.521 billion, expert for the German Ministry of Education and Research, reviewer for the German Academic Exchange Service, and expert for the German Aerospace Center. He is a reviewer/panelist for the NSF programs: MME, MEP, and CREST; with an estimated budget of over $7.6 billion. He is a reviewer for the US Fulbright Commission, the Qatar National Research Fund, and the Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences. He is a Consultant for Innosquared GmbH, and for Covestro, Germany.

Blurb

This book is a comprehensive collaboration on intelligent polymers and coatings for industrial applications by worldwide researchers and specialists. The authors cover the basis and fundamental aspects of intelligent polymers and coatings, challenges, and potential mechanisms and properties. They include recent and emerging industrial applications in medical, smart textile design, oil and gas, electronic, aerospace, and automobile industries as well as other applications including microsystems, sensors, and actuators, among others. The authors discuss the potential for future research in these areas for improvement and growth of marketable applications of intelligent polymers and coatings.