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

Renewable Polymers and Polymer-Metal Oxide Composites: Synthesis, Properties, and Applications serves as a reference on the key concepts of the advances of polymer-oxide composites. The book reviews knowledge on polymer-composite theory, properties, structure, synthesis, and their characterization and applications. There is an emphasis on coupling metal oxides with polymers from renewable sources. Also, the latest advances in the relationship between the microstructure of the composites and the resulting improvement of the material's properties and performance are covered. The applications addressed include desalination, tissue engineering, energy storage, hybrid energy systems, food, and agriculture. This book is suitable for early-career researchers in academia and R&D in industry who are working in the disciplines of materials science, engineering, chemistry and physics. Provides basic principles, theory and synthetic methods of composite materials, polymer composites and metal oxides Reviews the latest advances in polymer-oxide-based applications in medicine, water treatment, energy and sensing Discusses materials from renewable resources, including lifecycle assessment, economic aspects and potential application in tissue engineering, photovoltaics and food packaging INDICE: Part 1: Basic principles of composite materials1. Composite Materials: General Concepts, Recent Advances and Applications2. Theory of polymer composites: Structure, properties and the structure-property relationship3. Traditional and recently advanced synthetic routes of metal oxide materials4. Design and synthesis of metal oxide-polymer compositesPart 2: Features of polymer-metal oxide composites applications5. Medical applications of polymer and functionalized nanoparticle composite systems6. Polymer-metal oxide composites: An eco-friendly material for water treatment7. Polymer/metal oxide composites electrodes in energy devices8. Progress and challenges for optically active polymer-metal oxide composites9. Metal oxide-polymer composites properties near the percolation threshold10. Polymer-metal oxide composites for sensing applicationsPart 3: Polymers from renewable resources and their applications11. Materials from renewable resources: new properties and functions12. Sustainable polymers from renewable resources: A future macromolecular material13. Polysaccharides-metal oxide composites: A green functional material14. Food packaging materials from renewable polymers and their metal-oxide composites15. Advances in renewable polymer-metal oxide systems for tissue engineering16. Lignin-metal oxide composites for photo catalysis and photovoltaics

• ISBN: 978-0-323-85155-8
• Editorial: Elsevier
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 514
• Fecha Publicación: 22/03/2022
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés