Elsevier Unsaturated Polyester Resins: Fundamentals, Design, Fabrication, and Applications

Unsaturated Polyester Resins: Fundamentals, Design, Fabrication, and Applications explains the preparation, techniques and applications relating to the use of unsaturated polyester resin systems for blends, interpenetrating polymer networks (IPNs), gels, composites and nanocomposites, enabling readers to understand and utilize the improved material properties that UPRs facilitate. Chapters cover unsaturated polyester resins and their interaction at the macro, micro and nano levels, in-depth studies on the properties and analysis of UPR based materials, and the applications of UPR based composites, blends, IPNs and gels across a range of advanced commercial and industrial fields. This is a highly detailed source of information on unsaturated polyester resins, supporting academics, researchers and postgraduate students working with UPRs, polyesters, polymeric or composite materials, polymer chemistry, polymer physics, and materials science, as well as scientists, R&D professionals and engineers in industry. Review A comprehensive guide to the use of unsaturated polyester resins in blends, interpenetrating polymer networks (IPNs), composites and nanocomposites From the Back Cover Unsaturated Polyester Resins: Blends, IPNs, Composites, and Nanocomposites explains the preparation, techniques and applications relating to the use of unsaturated polyester resin systems for blends, interpenetrating polymer networks (IPNs), gels, composites, and nanocomposites, enabling the reader to understand and utilize the improved material properties that UPRs facilitate. The book begins by introducing unsaturated polyester resins and their interaction at the macro, micro and nano levels. Synthesis and characterization are then discussed, with morphological, thermal, mechanical and dynamic properties examined in detail. The reader is then provided with in-depth studies on the properties and analysis of UPR based materials, covering microscopic, spectroscopic, scattering, rheological, ageing, self-healing and modelling aspects. Finally, the book presents the applications of UPR based composites, blends, IPNs and gels, across a range of advanced commercial and industrial fields. This is a highly detailed source of information on unsaturated polyester resins, supporting academics, researchers and postgraduate students working with UPRs, polyesters, polymeric or composite materials, polymer chemistry, polymer physics, and materials science, as well as scientists, R&D professionals, and engineers in industry who are involved in the development or engineering of high-performance materials for polymer-based products. About the Author Prof. Sabu Thomas is a renowned professor who is serving as the Vice-Chancellor of Mahatma Gandhi University, Kerala, India. He is also a full professor of Polymer Science and Engineering at the School of Chemical Sciences, a role which he has held since 1998. He was previously Pro-Vice Chancellor of Mahatma Gandhi University 2017-2018, Director of School of Chemical Science during 2010-2013, Hon. Director of International & Inter-University Centre for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology 2009-2015 and 2016-17. In 2015, Prof. Thomas received his first Docteur Honoris Causa from University of Souther Brittany in Lorient, France. In 2016, he received his second Doctorate honoris causa from University of Lorraine, France. He was awarded the Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, London, FRSC in 2012. He received the Bronze Medal of the Chemical Research Society of India and the MRSI Medal of the Material Research Society of India in 2013. He was the recipient of Fulbright-Nehru International Education Administrators Award 2017. He also received TRiLA Academician of the year 2018 award. Prof. Thomas has published more than 1000 publications, and more than 100 books. Dr. Mahesh Hosur is Interim Head and Professor at the Materials Science and Engineering Department, Tuskeg