Woodhead Publishing Advanced Lightweight Multifunctional Materials (Woodhead Publishing in Materials)

Advanced Lightweight Multifunctional Materials presents the current state-of-the-art on multifunctional materials research, focusing on different morphologies and their preparation and applications. The book emphasizes recent advances on these types of materials as well as their application. Chapters cover porous multifunctional materials, thermochromic and thermoelectric materials, shape memory materials, piezoelectric multifunctional materials, electrochromic and electrorheological, soft materials, magnetic and photochromic materials, and more. The book will be a valuable reference resource for academic researchers and industrial engineers working in the design and manufacture of multifunctional materials, composites and nanocomposites. Review Presents the current state-of-the-art on multifunctional materials research, focusing on different morphologies and their preparations and applications From the Back Cover Multifunctional materials are increasingly being studied and are suitable for several technological applications including energy storage, production and conversion, water treatment, air purification, drug delivery systems, health monitoring, biomedical applications, and structural health reinforcement and monitoring. Lightweight multifunctional materials are an emerging class of materials research with connections into many different scientific fields such as physics, chemistry, materials science, biology, and medicine. This book presents the current state-of-the-art on multifunctional materials research focusing on different morphologies and their preparation and applications. The book emphasizes recent advances on these types of materials as well as their application. Chapters covered include porous multifunctional materials; thermochromic and thermoelectric materials; shape memory materials; piezoelectric multifunctional materials; electrochromic and electrorheological; soft materials; magnetic and photochromic materials. The book will be a valuable reference resource for academic researchers and industrial engineers working in the design and manufacture of multifunctional materials, composites and nanocomposites. About the Author Pedro Costa graduated in Physics and obtained his PhD degree in Materials Engineering at the University of Minho, Portugal in 2013. He is currently a researcher at the same university working in polymer-based composites for energy harvesting, sensors and actuator applications. He participates in several international conferences, has published in scientific journals and has one patent registered. His research interests are in the field of polymer-based smart material composites and their applications, including energy harvesting and generation. Carlos M. Costa obtained his PhD degree in Physics at the University of Minho, Portugal in 2014. He is currently a researcher at the same university and his work is focused on the development of advanced polymer composites and new materials and formulations for sensors, actuator and energy storage applications including lithium-ion batteries and printed batteries. He has over 100 published papers. Prof. S. Lanceros-Mendez is currently the Ikerbasque Professor and Scientific Director at the Basque Center for Materials, Applications and Nanostructures, Leioa, Spain. He is also Associate Professor at the Physics Department of the University of Minho, Portugal (on leave), where he belongs to the Center of Physics. His work is focused in the area of smart and functional materials for sensors and actuators, energy and biomedical applications, with over 450 ISI publications in the field, three edited books, over 14 book chapters and 9 patents.