Polymer Nanocomposites: Fabrication to Applications offers the readers an up-to-date interpretation of various polymeric nanocomposite materials and technologies via critical reviews. It covers developments and advancements in various nanomaterials, polymeric materials, biopolymers, and processes. It initiates from nanomaterials synthesis, fabrication, characterization to the manufacturing aspect and feasible product applications of the polymer-based nanocomposites. The prime focus on polymer matrix nanocomposites and their future trends in the engineering sector.
Features:
- Explores synthesis, characterization, properties, fabrication/processing, and application of polymer nanocomposite materials
- Elaborates polymer manufacturing phase challenges using various control methods and statistical tools and modules
- Includes machining and micro (µ) machining investigation on the polymer nanocomposites
- Discusses modeling, simulation and optimization of process parameters during the machining processes and application of additive manufacturing
- Comprehends the significance of Nanomaterials functionalizing synthetic fibrous and bio-compatible composites
This book is aimed at researchers and graduate students in mechanical engineering, materials science, polymers, composites, and nanomaterials.
About the Author: Rajesh Kumar Verma is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, School of Engineering at the Harcourt Butler Technical University, Kanpur, India. It is a renowned and old premier institute whose roots are as deep as its outlook. "Government Research Institute, Cawnpore" was established in 1920 and was renamed "Government Technological Institute" in 1921. Finally, in 1926 it got the name we know today, "Harcourt Butler Technological Institute." As per Act No. 11 of 2016 by the Government of Uttar Pradesh, it has become a university, i.e., Harcourt Butler Technical University Kanpur, India. Prof. Verma received his Ph.D. (Engineering) from Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India. He is an C.Eng. (Mechanical Engineering) of the Institution of Engineers (India). He is actively involved in teaching and research in waste management, fiber science, composites, nanomaterial, modeling, simulation, optimization, and Manufacturing processes. Prof. Verma currently supervised/ongoing more than 13 Masters and nine Ph.D. thesis and published more than 102 research articles in peer-reviewed journals and conferences. The e-content and courses he developed are widely used in the Indian university system. He has completed/ongoing more than eight nos. of research and development (R&D) projects sponsored by various govt. agencies. He is now a reviewer of various international publishers. Moreover, Prof. Verma has been invited as Keynote/Invited Speaker, Section Chair, and member for several international conferences with themes in Mechanical & Production Engineering, Emerging Materials and manufacturing science. He has developed various nanomaterials for structural applications and proposed hybrid optimization modules recognized by multiple peer-reviewed journal publishers.
Shivi Kesarwani is currently working as a Senior Research Assistant (SRA) in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Madan Mohan Malaviya University of Technology, India. He is an Associate Member of the Institution of Engineers (India). His research interests focus on nanomaterial synthesis and development, composites machining, numerical modeling, and surface texturing. He has published over 15 peer-reviewed articles in refereed international journals and conference proceedings. Additionally, He has filed two process as well as one design patents and has one Indian copyright registered document. He has also utilized various nanomaterials reinforced fibrous composites for structural applications and developed hybrid metaheuristic optimizing methodologies recognized by multiple peer-reviewed journals and book publishers.
Jinyang Xu is currently working as an Associate Professor and a Doctoral Supervisor of Mechanical Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China. He was awarded the Shanghai Pujiang Scholar by the Shanghai Municipality in 2017. He received his M.Sc. (2013) in Mechanical Manufacturing & Automation from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China, and the Ph.D. (2016) in Mechanical Engineering from Arts et Métiers ParisTech, France. His research interests focus on composites machining, numerical modeling, micro/nano cutting, and surface texturing. He has published over 70 peer-reviewed articles in refereed international journals and conference proceedings being cited more than 1200 times, featured by an h-index of 18 according to the Google Scholar database. He has edited seven special issues in international journals/conferences, one monograph, and one book chapter in the field of composites machining. He is now serving as an associate editor of Simulation - Transactions of the Society for Modeling and Simulation International (SCIE/EI). He is also on the editorial board of several JCR-ranked journals. Moreover, Dr. Xu is also serving as a regular reviewer for over 40 international journals indexed by SCIE/EI, such as IJMTM, JMPT, IJAMT, etc. He has been invited as Keynote/Invited Speaker, Section Chair, and TPC member for a number of international conferences with themes in materials science and manufacturing processes. For his notable research in the field of Materials Processing & Manufacturing, he was honored with the IAAM Scientist Medal of the year 2020 and received the Best Paper Awards at the CJUMP2017 and the ISGMA2015 conferences.
J. Paulo Davim is a Full Professor at the University of Aveiro, Portugal. He is also distinguished as honorary Professor in several universities/colleges in China, India and Spain. He received his Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering in 1997, M.Sc. degree in Mechanical Engineering (materials and manufacturing processes) in 1991, Mechanical Engineering degree (5 years) in 1986, from the University of Porto (FEUP), the Aggregate title (Full Habilitation) from the University of Coimbra in 2005 and the D.Sc. (Higher Doctorate) from London Metropolitan University in 2013. He is a Senior Chartered Engineer by the Portuguese Institution of Engineers with an MBA and Specialist titles in Engineering and Industrial Management as well as in Metrology. He is also Eur Ing by FEANI-Brussels and Fellow (FIET) of IET-London. He has more than 30 years of teaching and research experience in Manufacturing, Materials, Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, with special emphasis in Machining & Tribology. He has also interest in Management, Engineering Education and Higher Education for Sustainability. He has guided large numbers of postdoc, Ph.D. and master's students as well as has coordinated and participated in several financed research projects. He has received several scientific awards and honors. He has worked as evaluator of projects for ERC-European Research Council and other international research agencies as well as the examiner of Ph.D. thesis for many universities in different countries. He is the Editor in Chief of several international journals, Guest Editor of journals, books Editor, book Series Editor and Scientific Advisory for many international journals and conferences. Presently, he is an Editorial Board member of 30 international journals and acts as reviewer for more than 100 prestigious Web of Science journals. In addition, he has also published as editor (and co-editor) more than 150 books and as author (and co-author) more than 15 books, 100 book chapters and 500 articles in journals and conferences (more than 250 articles in journals indexed in Web of Science core collection/h-index 57+/10500+ citations, SCOPUS/h-index 61+/12500+ citations, Google Scholar/h-index 79+/21000+ citations).
