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Smart Polymer Nanocomposites

Energy Harvesting, Self-Healing and Shape Memory Applications

  • An application-oriented book introducing smart polymer nanocomposites for modern applications
  • Clearly structured: chapters are ordered both by composites type and target application
  • Addresses scientists and professionals in different disciplines, from graduate level to researcher
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Springer Series on Polymer and Composite Materials (SSPCM)

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
  2. Energy Harvesting: Breakthrough Technologies Through Polymer Composites

    • Saquib Ahmed, Sankha Banerjee, Udhay Sundar, Hector Ruiz, Sanjeev Kumar, Ajith Weerasinghe
    Pages 1-42
  3. Energy Harvesting from Crystalline and Conductive Polymer Composites

    • Aravind Kumar, Shaikh Faruque Ali, A. Arockiarajan
    Pages 43-75
  4. Ceramic-Based Polymer Nanocomposites as Piezoelectric Materials

    • Deepalekshmi Ponnamma, Mariem Mohamed Chamakh, Kalim Deshmukh, M. Basheer Ahamed, Alper Erturk, Pradeep Sharma et al.
    Pages 77-93
  5. Poly(3-Hexylthiophene) (P3HT), Poly(Gamma-Benzyl-l-Glutamate) (PBLG) and Poly(Methyl Methacrylate) (PMMA) as Energy Harvesting Materials

    • Zubair Ahmad, Muhammad Awais, Mansoor Ani Najeeb, R. A. Shakoor, Farid Touati
    Pages 95-118
  6. Self-healing Polymer Composites Based on Graphene and Carbon Nanotubes

    • Santwana Pati, Bhanu Pratap Singh, S. R. Dhakate
    Pages 119-152
  7. Self-healed Materials from Thermoplastic Polymer Composites

    • Venkatavijayan Subramanian, Dharmesh Varade
    Pages 153-180
  8. Self-healed Materials from Elastomeric Composites: Concepts, Strategies and Developments

    • Ramna Tripathi, Pratibha Sharma, Avneet Saini, Gaurav Verma
    Pages 219-242
  9. Nanocomposites for Extrinsic Self-healing Polymer Materials

    • Yongjing Wang, Duc Truong Pham, Chunqian Ji
    Pages 243-279
  10. A Brief Overview of Shape Memory Effect in Thermoplastic Polymers

    • M. Imran Khan, M. M. Zagho, R. A. Shakoor
    Pages 281-301
  11. Shape Memory Materials from Epoxy Matrix Composites

    • Loredana Santo, Fabrizio Quadrini
    Pages 303-320
  12. Shape Memory Behavior of Conducting Polymer Nanocomposites

    • Deepalekshmi Ponnamma, Yara Mohamed Hany El-Gawady, Mariappan Rajan, Solleti Goutham, Kalagadda Venkateswara Rao, Mariam Al-Ali Al-Maadeed
    Pages 321-343
  13. Functional Nanomaterials for Transparent Electrodes

    • Bananakere Nanjegowda Chandrashekar, A. S. Smitha, K. Jagadish, Namratha, S. Srikantaswamy, B. E. Kumara Swamy et al.
    Pages 345-376
  14. Biodegradable Nanocomposites for Energy Harvesting, Self-healing, and Shape Memory

    • Deepu Thomas, John-John Cabibihan, Sasi Kumar, S. K. Khadheer Pasha, Dipankar Mandal, Meena Laad et al.
    Pages 377-397

About this book

This book covers smart polymer nanocomposites with perspectives for application in energy harvesting, as self-healing materials, or shape memory materials. The book is application-oriented and describes different types of polymer nanocomposites, such as elastomeric composites, thermoplastic composites, or conductive polymer composites. It outlines their potential for applications, which would meet some of the most important challenges nowadays: for harvesting energy, as materials with the capacity to self-heal, or as materials memorizing a given shape.
The book brings together these different applications for the first time in one single platform. Chapters are ordered both by the type of composites and by the target applications. Readers will thus find a good overview, facilitating a comparison of the different smart materials and their applications. The book will appeal to scientists in the fields of chemistry, material science and engineering, but also to technologistsand physicists, from graduate student level to researcher and professional. 


Editors and Affiliations

  • Qatar University, Doha, Qatar

    Deepalekshmi Ponnamma

  • Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar

    Kishor Kumar Sadasivuni, John-John Cabibihan

  • Center for Advanced Materials, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar

    Mariam Al-Ali Al-Maadeed

About the editors

Dr. Deepalekshmi Ponnamma is a post-doctoral fellow at the Center for Advanced Materials Qatar University. She received her doctoral degree from the Deakin University, Australia. Her research in the field of polymer nanocomposites (among other topics) has been published in international journals and book contributions, and has been awarded at several international conferences with best poster and oral presentation awards. Deepalekshmi Ponnamma already is experienced book editor.


Dr. Kishor Kumar Sadasivuni is a post-doctoral researcher at the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Qatar University. He has previously worked at the Inha University, South Korea, University of South Brittany, France and Mahatma Gandhi University, India. He has been involved in the publication of several papers in international journals and of book chapters and has already coedited several books in the fields of polymers, elastomers and composites. He servesas a guest editor in Sensors & Transducers journal and a lead guest editor in International Journal of Materials Science and Applications.


Dr. John-John Cabibihan is an Associate Professor at the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Qatar University. He is Associate Editor of the International Journal of Social Robotics; and the Chair of the IEEE. He received his Ph.D. in Biomedical Robotics from the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy in 2007. 


Prof. Mariam Al-Maadeed is the Director of the Center for Advanced Materials, Qatar University. She has received the Physics State Award 2010/ 2011 and the Gulf Petrochemical Association (GPCA) Plastic Excllence Award in 2014. She received her PhD from Alexandria Univ., Egypt in 2001.



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Softcover Book USD 219.99
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Hardcover Book USD 219.99
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  • Durable hardcover edition
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