Renewable Polymers and Polymer-Metal Oxide Composites: Synthesis, Properties, and Applications

ISBN-13: 9780323851558 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 514 str.

Sajjad Haider; Adnan Haider

Spis treści

Part 1: Basic principles of composite materials
1. Composite Materials: General Concepts, Recent Advances and Applications
2. Theory of polymer composites: Structure, properties and the structure-property relationship
3. Traditional and recently advanced synthetic routes of metal oxide materials
4. Design and synthesis of metal oxide-polymer composites

Part 2: Features of polymer-metal oxide composites applications
5. Medical applications of polymer and functionalized nanoparticle composite systems
6. Polymer-metal oxide composites: An eco-friendly material for water treatment
7. Polymer/metal oxide composites electrodes in energy devices
8. Progress and challenges for optically active polymer-metal oxide composites
9. Metal oxide-polymer composites properties near the percolation threshold
10. Polymer-metal oxide composites for sensing applications

Part 3: Polymers from renewable resources and their applications
11. Materials from renewable resources: new properties and functions
12. Sustainable polymers from renewable resources: A future macromolecular material
13. Polysaccharides-metal oxide composites: A green functional material
14. Food packaging materials from renewable polymers and their metal-oxide composites
15. Advances in renewable polymer-metal oxide systems for tissue engineering
16. Lignin-metal oxide composites for photo catalysis and photovoltaics

O autorze

Dr. Sajjad Haider is an Associate Professor in the Chemical Engineering Department at King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia since May 2009. His research work focuses on the development of carbon nanotubes, metal nanoparticles, the synthesis of biopolymer and metal oxide composites, synthesis of polymer hydrogels, and electrospun nanofibers for biomedical and environmental applications. He is on the editorial board of the Makara of Technology Series and Journal of Chemical Engineering and Material Science. Dr. Haider has co-edited two books and co-authored seven book chapters. Dr. Adnan Haider is working as an Assistant Professor at the Department of Biological Sciences at the National University of Medical Sciences (NUMS). He has also worked at the Department of Chemistry at Kohat University of Science and Technology, Kohat, Pakistan. His research work focuses on the development of metal nanoparticles, the synthesis of biopolymer and metal oxide composites, and electrospun nanofibers for biomedical and environmental applications. Dr. Haider has co-edited two books and co-authored seven book chapters.