Advanced Lightweight Multifunctional Materials

Presents the current state-of-the-art on multifunctional materials research, focusing on different morphologies and their preparations and applications

Pedro Costa (Edited by), Carlos M Costa (Edited by), Senentxu Lanceros-Mendez (Edited by)

9780128185018

Paperback, published 24 November 2020

550 pages, 270 illustrations (30 in full color)
22.9 x 15.1 x 3.4 cm, 0.88 kg

Approx.532 pages

1. Introduction: overview of lightweight multifunctional materials 2. Conventional preparation of multifunctional materials 3. Additive manufacturing of multifunctional materials 4. Reinforcement Structural Materials 5. Porous lightweight materials: Environment and energy sustainability 6. Advances of thermochromic and thermoelectric materials 7. Multifunctional materials for shape memory alloys/polymers/ceramics 8. Piezoelectric polymers and composites for multifunctional materials 9. Advances of Electrochromic and electro-rheological materials 10. Progress of Soft Materials: Stretchable functional composites and lightweight materials for structural health monitoring 11. Magnetic field into multifunctional materials: magnetorheological, magnetostrictive and magnetocaloric 12. Multifunctional materials with pH-change/solvent/moisture: smart gels 13. Recent advances of photochromic materials 14. Biomolecular multifunctional materials 15. Challenges and future trends: Functional multi-composites with novel structural and sensing properties

Subject Areas: Materials science [TGM]