1st Edition
Recent Advances in Polymer Nanocomposites
This book is a collection of technical papers focusing on the preparation, characterization and application of polymer nanocomposites. The various chapters in the book are written by prominent researchers from industry, academia, and government/private research laboratories across the globe. Different techniques adopted for the preparation of nanocomposites, their methods of characterization and their applications are discussed. The main objective of this book is to summarize in a fairly comprehensive manner many of the recent technical accomplishments in the area of polymer nanocomposites. The book is intended to serve as a one stop reference resource for important research accomplishments in the area of polymer nanocomposites.
Biography
Sabu Thomas Ph.D. (1987) in Polymer Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, is Professor of Polymer Science & Engineering, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kerala, India. Prof. Thomas has (co-)authored more than 300 papers in international peer-reviewed journals and has been involved in a number of books, both as author and editor. Gennady E. Zaikov, N.M. Emanuel Institute of Biochemical Physics of Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia S.V. Valsaraj, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kerala, India.