Smart Functional Hybrid Nanocomposites

Fundamentals and Applications for Environmental Sustainability and Energy

Tawfik Abdo Saleh

• Publisher: Elsevier
• Year: 2025
• Topic: Technology & Engineering
• eBook ISBN:
  9780443314797
• Subtopic: Materials Science
• Index: Technology & Engineering

Smart Functional Hybrid Nanocomposites: Fundamentals and Applications for Environmental Sustainability and Energy introduces readers to the fundamental principles behind these materials, covering their chemical and physical properties, synthesis methods, characterization techniques, and various applications. Modeling methods, approaches to tailoring their functional response, processing techniques (including additive manufacturing), and assessment techniques are each covered. Various applications are also discussed such as water purification, environmental remediation, energy harvesting and conversion, their use in light-emitting diodes, solar cells, photodiodes, field-effect transistors, and more.The book concludes with chapters outlining the sustainability, recyclability, and lifecycle assessment of these materials, as well as current challenges and future directions associated with their use. - Covers tailoring functional responses, processing, materials compatibilization, characterization techniques, environmental issues, and best practices in modeling of smart hybrid nanocomposites - Discusses the unique chemical and physical properties of smart hybrid nanocomposites - Includes synthesis methods, covering their precursor materials, reaction procedures, and other factors influencing synthesis - Features applications such as water purification, energy harvesting and recovery, wave propagation, and their use in light-emitting diodes, photodiodes, solar cells, and field-effect transistors

Table of contents

• Title of Book
• 1. Smart functional materials and hybrid nanocomposites: Foundations, advances, and applications
• 2. Principles and foundations of advanced material science and smart hybrid systems
• 3. Smart materials: From bulk materials, nanotechnology, toward picotechnology
• 4. Advanced approaches in the design strategies, preparation, and synthesis methods of smart hybrid materials
• 5. Classification of characterization techniques and methods: Advanced structural assessment approaches for smart hybrid materials
• 6. Surface chemistry, properties, and morphology characterization of smart hybrid materials: Criteria and strategies for technique selection and guidelines
• 7. Advances in carbon nanomaterials and smart materials: Classification, functional properties, and emerging technological applications
• 8. Stimuli-responsive polymeric nanomaterials: Design, mechanisms, and emerging applications
• 9. Stimuli-responsive MOFs and other crystalline smart materials: Classification and applications
• 10. Smart materials in water, environment, and sustainability: Types and applications
• 11. Smart materials in energy technologies: Applications in energy harvesting, storage, conversion, solar cells, light-emitting diodes (LEDs), photodiodes, and sustainability
• 12. Smart hybrid materials and nanomaterials: Applications, developments in 3D and 4D-printing technologies, green chemistry, and directions
• 13. From lab innovation to industrial deployment and market of smart hybrid materials and nanomaterials: Business commercial pathways and the role of artificial intelligence (AI)
• 14. Environmental impact and safety strategies of preparing and using smart hybrid materials and nanomaterials: Sustainability, recyclability, and life cycle assessment
• Index