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Undoubtedly the applications of polymers are rapidly evolving. Technology is continually changing and quickly advancing as polymers are needed to solve a variety of day-to-day challenges leading to improvements in quality of life. The Encyclopedia of Polymer Applications presents state-of-the-art research and development on the applications of polymers. This groundbreaking work provides important overviews to help stimulate further advancements in all areas of polymers.
This comprehensive multi-volume reference includes articles contributed from a diverse and global team of renowned researchers. It offers a broad-based perspective on a multitude of topics in a variety of applications, as well as detailed research information, figures, tables, illustrations, and references. The encyclopedia provides introductions, classifications, properties, selection, types, technologies, shelf-life, recycling, testing and applications for each of the entries where applicable.
It features critical content for both novices and experts including, engineers, scientists (polymer scientists, materials scientists, biomedical engineers, macromolecular chemists), researchers, and students, as well as interested readers in academia, industry, and research institutions.
Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781351019408 |
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| Publisher: | CRC Press |
| Publication date: | 12/17/2018 |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| Pages: | 2954 |
| File size: | 192 MB |
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About the Author
Munmaya Mishra, Ph.D., is a polymer scientist who has worked in the industry for more than 30 years. He has been engaged in research, management, technology innovations, and product development. He currently holds research and technical management responsibility at Altria Research Center and serves as the Editor-in-Chief of three Taylor & Francis’ renowned polymer journals. He has contributed immensely to multiple aspects of polymer applications, including encapsulation and controlled release technologies. He has authored and coauthored hundreds of scientific articles, is the author or editor of eight books, and holds over 70 US patents, over 50 US patent-pending applications, and over 100 world patents. He has received numerous recognitions and awards. He is the editor-in-chief of the recently published 11-volume Encyclopedia of Biomedical Polymers and Polymeric Biomaterials and the Encyclopedia of Polymer Applications. He founded the International Society of Biomedical Polymers and Polymeric Biomaterials as well as a scientific meeting titled Advanced Polymers via Macromolecular Engineering, which has gained international recognition and is under the sponsorship of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry.
Table of Contents
Actuators: Buckypaper Composite / Joshua DeGraff, Richard Liang and Pierre Cottinet
Agriculture: Natural Polymers for Controlled Release of Fertilizers / Cristiana A.V. Torres, Filomena Freitas
Agriculture: Polymers in Crop Production Mulch and Fertilizer / Dhruba Jyoti Sarkar, Mandira Barman, Tanumoy Bera, Mriganka De and Dibyendu Chatterjee
Agriculture: Polymers in Crop Production Pesticides / Dhruba Jyoti Sarkar, Najam Akhter Shakil, V. S. Rana, Jitendra Kumar, Ajoy Saha, Totan Adak and Jaydeep Haldar
Agriculture: Polymers in Crop Protection / Pietro Picuno
Agriculture: Super Absorbent Functional Polymers / Bijender Kumar, Farha Deeba, Ruchir Priyadarshi, Sauraj, and Yuvraj Singh Negi
Alginate / Pankaj M. Maheriya and Vipul D. Prajapati
Automotive Applications: Polylactic Acid and Biocomposite Parts / Khosrow Khodabakhshi
Automotive Applications: Polymers in / I. A. Aderibigbe, E. R. Sadiku and A. P. I Popoola
Automotive Applications: Reinforced Material Components / B. Suresha, R. Hemanth and K. Nithin
Aviation: Polymer Composites, Processes, and Properties / I. A. Aderibigbe, P. Nombula and A.P. I. Popoola
Aviation: Thermoplastic and Thermoset Polymers in / M. Özgür Seydibeyoğlu, Fatma Erdoğan and Elif Alyamaç
Biomaterials: Soft Tissue Injuries / Anurag Singh and Rui Miranda Guedes
Biomedicine: Cellulose in / Eliane Trovatti and Eugen Barbu
Biomedicine: Cross-linked Polymers Applications / B. A. Aderibigbe
Biomedicine: Polymers with Silsesquioxane Units / B. Simionescu, A. Oancea, I. Bordianu-Antochi, C. Ursu, C. Cotofana and M. Olaru
Biosensing Devices: Conjugated Polymer Based Scaffolds / Saniye Soylemez, Melis Kesika and Levent Toppare
Catalysts: Polymers in Biodiesel Production / Farha Deeba, Bijender Kumar, Sauraj, Ruchir Priyadarshi, Vikas Pruthi and Yuvraj S. Negi
Chemotherapy: Polycaprolactone (PCL)-Based Drug Delivery System / Somesh Mohapatra, Vineethkrishna Chandrasekar, Aparna R. Chakravarti, Shweta Paroha, Oshin Sapra, Ankit Saneja, and Ravindra Dhar Dubey
Chitosan: Antimicrobial and Edible Coatings / Anjali Bishnoi, Sandeep Rai, Nirav Joshi and Sunil Kumar
Chitosan: Biodegradable Food Packaging / Ruchir Priyadarshi, Sauraj Singh, Saleheen Bano, Asif Ali and Yuvraj Singh Negi
Chitosan: Tissue Engineering and Wound Dressing Applications / Mohammad Amin Shamekhi, Hamid Mahdavi, Hamid Mirzadeh, Ahmad Rabiee, Davod Mohebbi-Kalhori, Nooshin Haghighipour and Mohamadreza Baghaban Eslaminejad
Communication: Polymers in / Pulak Datta, Sanjay Kumar and Gautam Sarkhel
Composites and Nanocomposites: Thermoplastic Polymers for Additive Manufacturing / Nahal Aliheidari and Amir Ameli
Composites: Biobased for Materials Applications / Thimothy Molefi Thamae, Thabiso Letseka and Leboli Thamae
Composites: Conductive Elastomer CNT-Based / Jiji Abraham, Mohammed Arif P, Soney C. George, Nandakumar Kalarikkal and Sabu Thomas
Composites: Environment-Friendly Nanocomposites / Sukanya Pradhan, Smita Mohanty and Sanjay K. Nayak
Composites: Natural Fibers Reinforced / M. K. Gupta
Composites: Polylactic Acid-Based Blends / Payam Zarrintaj, Emad Jowshan, Reza Khalili, Zahed Ahmadi, Mohammad Reza Saeb and Masoud Mozafari
Conducting Polymers: Applications / Anupreet Kaur
Conducting Polymers: Electrospun Materials / Thomas Kerr-Phillips and Jadranka Travas-Sejdic
Construction: Rigid Bio-Based Polyurethane Foams for Sandwich Panels / Rafael de Avila Delucis, Washington Luiz Esteves Magalhães, Cesar Liberato Petzhold and Sandro Campos Amicos
Corrosion Inhibitor: Polymeric Desiccant / Madhumita Kulkarni and P.A Mahanwar
Corrosion Protection: Natural Polymer in / I. B. Obot, Ubong M. Edouk and Saviour A. Umoren
Cosmetics: Active Polymers / Mayuree Kanlayavattanakul and Nattaya Lourith
Cosmetics: Polymers in / Bhavya M. V., Gowda D. V, Sivadasu Praveen, Nithin Kundachira Subramani and Siddaramaiah Hatna
Cosmetics: Polymers in Delivery of Actives / Azila Abd. Aziz, Rosnani Hasham and Mariani Abdul Hamid
Display: Photorefractive Polymers in / Pierre-Alexandre Blanche
Drug Delivery: Biodegradable Polymers in / Sauraj Singh, Ruchir Priyadarshi, Bijender Kumar, Saleheen Ban, Farha Deeba, Asif Ali and Yuvraj Singh Negi
Drug Delivery: Microencapsulation Techniques for / Mrunal R. Waghulde and Jitendra B. Naik
Drug Delivery: PLGA-PEG-Based Bioerodable Nanoparticles / Arindam Maity, Debanjana Chakraborty, Kazi Asraf Ali and Sougata Jana
Drug Delivery: Polymeric Conjugates for Dietary Phytochemicals / Divya Arora and Sundeep Jaglan
Drug Delivery: Polymeric Membranes for Devices / Zeenat Arif, P.K. Mishra, S.N. Upadhyay and Rajeev Mehta
Drug Delivery: Polymeric Micelles / Dorota Neugebauer
Drug Delivery: Polymers and Polymeric Membranes / Shilpa Narang, Zeenat Arif, Rajeev Mehta, P.K. Mishra and S.N. Upadhyay
Drug Delivery: Polysaccharide-Based Composites / Sougata Jana and Subrata Jana
Drug Delivery: Stimuli-Responsive Polymeric Prodrugs for Cancer / Sauraj, Ruchir Priyadarshi, Farha Deeba, Bijender Kumar and Yuvraj Singh Negi
Drug Delivery: Trends and Future Prospects / Ufana Riaz and Anurakshee Verma
Electronics: Nonvolatile Memory Technologies / Sreedevi Vallabhapurapu, Shengzhi Dub and Ananthakrishnan Srinivasan
Electronics: Polymer–Graphene Composites / Seema Ansari and M. N. Muralidharan
Energy: Conducting Polymers and Conjugated Porous Polymers / Narendra Pal Singh Chauhan, Nirmala Kumari Jangid, Navjeet Kaur and Masoud Mozafari
Energy: Polymer Electrolytes for Lithium Ion Batteries / Guang Yang, Youngmin Lee and Qing Wang
Energy: Polymer Supercapacitors / Anish Benny and Soney C. George
Energy: Polymer-Functionalized Graphene / Arun K. Nandi, Pousali Chal and Arnab Shit
Energy: Polymers in Harvesting, Conversion, and Storage / Shahram Mehdipour-Ataei and Zahra Tabatabaei-Yazdi
Energy: Polymers in the Active Layer of Solar Cells / Bianca P. Santos and Maria de Fatima V. Marques
Environmental Applications: Biopolymer Sorbents for Heavy Metal Removal / Patrícia Concórdio-Reis and Filomena Freitas
Environmental Applications: Hydrogels / G. Roshan Deen
Environmental Applications: Polymers in / Chow Wen Shyang
Fire Protection: Flame-Retardant Additives and Fillers for Polymers / Hüsnügül Yilmaz Atay
Fire Protection: Flame-Retardant Epoxy Resins in / Seema Agrawal and Anudeep Kumar Narula
Fire Protection: Flame-Retardant Polymers in / Ayesha Kausar
Food Packaging: Cellulose Nanocrystals in / Prodyut Dhar, Chethana Mudenur and Vimal Katiyar
Food Packaging: Edible Products / Rungsinee Sothornvit
Food Packaging: Natural and Synthetic Biopolymers / Ruchir Priyadarshi, Anurag Kulshreshtha, Bijender Kumar, Farha Deeba and Yuvraj Singh Negi
Food Packaging: Polyhydroxyalcanoates (PHA) Containing Antimicrobial Additives / C.R. Rech, K.C S. Brabes and S.M. Martelli
Food Packaging: Polymer Composites / Garima Agrawal and Rahul Agrawal
Food Packaging: Polymers as Packaging Materials in Food Supply Chains / A B. Hemavathi and H. Siddaramaiah
Food Packaging: Starch and Non-Starch Blend Films / Hanisah Kamilah, Kaiser Mahmood, Poh Lee-Shang, Syazana Sulaiman, Abdorreza Mohammadi Nafchi, Fazilah Ariffin and Abd Karim Alias
Food Packaging: Starch-Based Bionanocomposites / Kalyani Prusty and Sarat K. Swain
Food: Polymers in / Vincent G. Gomes
Footwear / Saraswathy Gnanasundaram and Mohan Ranganathan
Fuel Cell: Cellulose-Based Polyelectrolyte Proton Exchange Membranes / Randa E. Khalifa, Tamer M. Tamer, Ahmed M. Omer and Mohamed S. Mohy Eldin
Fuel Cell: Polymeric Membrane / Saleheen Bano, Ruchir Priyadarshi, Sauraj, Bijender Kumar and Yuvraj Singh Negi
Furniture: Eco-Friendly Polymer Composites Applications / Md. Shahruzzaman, Shanta Biswas, Md. Minhajul Islam, Md. Sazedul Islam, Md. Shirajur Rahman, Papia Haque and Mohammed Mizanur Rahman
Furniture: Polymers in / Gibin George, Liju Elias and Zhiping Luo
Healthcare: Polymer as Vital Materials / Abhilasha Mishra, Rajesh Kumar Saini and A.K. Bajpai
Household Goods: Polymers in / Rupa Bhattacharyya and Sumit Nandi
Insulators: Polymers for High Voltage Outdoor Use / Anshul Gautampurkar and Prakash Mahanwar
Laboratory Applications: Polymers in / Oznur Dogan Ulu and Ismail Ozdemir
Marine Applications / Asit Baran Samui
Medicines: Polymers for / Narendra Pal Singh Chauhan, Nirmala Kumari Jangid, Navjeet Kaur, Bharatraj Singh Rathore, Mazaher Gholipourmalekabadi and Masoud Mozafari
Membrane: Preparation by Nonsolvent-Induced Phase Inversion / Priscila Anadão and Hélio Wiebeck
Membranes: Graft Modification of Polymers for / A. Bhattacharya, Romil Mehta and Paramita Manna
Membranes: Hemodialysis Applications / S. Sentilkumar and Noel Jacob Kaleekkal
Microcapsules Polymeric: Self-Healing Smart Coatings / Mahendra Mahajan and Vikas V. Gite
Microencapsulation: Phase Change Material in Textile and Building Construction / Arindam Dey, Rekha Gorai and Somenath Ganguly
Microneedles Arrays: Based on Natural Polymers / Diana Araújo and Filomena Freitas
Nanocellulose: Environmental and Engineering Applications of / Deepu A. Gopakumar, Avinash R. Pai, Sabu K. T., Sisanth K. S., Sabu Thomas and Yves Grohens
Nanocellulose: Health Care Applications / Blessy Joseph, Deepu A. Gopakumar, Hanna J. Maria, Jemy James, Yves Grohens, Sabu Thomas and Nandakumar Kalarikkal
Nanocomposites: Polyamide/Polyhedral Oligomeric Silsesquioxane / Ayesha Kausar, Nabila Badar and Obaid-Ur-Rahman Abid
Nanocomposites: POSS-Based / Lakshmipriya Somasekharan, Nandakumar Kalarikkal and Sabu Thomas
Orthopedic Implants: Applications of Bioabsorbable Polymers / Lígia Figueiredo, Frederico Castelo Ferreira, Luís F.V. Pinto, Nuno Ribeiro, Nuno Guitian Oliveira and Alexandra Rodrigues
Oxo-Biodegradable Polymers / Emo Chiellini, Stefania Cometa and Andrea Corti
Packaging, Active and Intelligent: Polymer Applications / Panuwat Suppakul
Packaging: Food Waste Reduction / Sergio Torres-Giner, Luis Gil, Leonor Pascual-Ramírez and José A. Garde-Belza
Packaging: Polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) in / Pradnya P. Kanekar, Snehal O. Kulkarni and Sagar P. Kanekar
Packaging: Polymer–Metal-Based Micro and Nanocomposites / Rajesh Kumar Sahoo
Petroleum Production: Polymers in / Gbenga Folorunso Oluyemi
Poly(3-hydroxybutyrate): Applications / A. P. Bonartsev
Polypyrrole: Properties and Application / Amir Reza Sadrolho, Suraya Abdul Rashid and Suhaidi Shafie
Polyurethanes: Biobased / Dheeraj Ahuja and Anupama Kaushik
Porous Polymers: Gas Separation and Storage / Fateme Rezaei, Hooman Hosseini, Anirudh Krishnamurthy and Ali A. Rownaghi
Rapid Prototyping of Microfluidic Devices in Polymers / Zhibin Yan, Mingliang Jin and Lingling Shui
Rapid Prototyping of Polymeric Biomaterials / Swati Mishra
Recycling: Converting Waste Plastics to Polyolefin Wax / Apurv Gaidhani and Prakash Mahanwar
Recycling: Polyurethane Foam Wastes / Mir Mohammad Alavi Nikje and Baharak Pooladian
Regenerative Medicine: Natural Polymers / Suraj K. Nayak, Shresthaa Patel, Suprio R. Paul, Barbiee Choudhary, Seemadri Subhadarshini, Anshuman K. Sahu, Vinay K. Singh, Arfat Anis and Kunal Pal
Resorbable Embolics / Lihui Weng and Randy Donelson
Semiconducting Polymers in Photovoltaics / Veeman Sannasi, Mohan Ramesh and Duraisamy Jeyakumar
Sensors: Advanced Aptasensors Design / Rinkesh Bhatt, Laxmi P. Bagri, Rajesh Saini and Anil Kumar Bajpai
Sensors: Ion Sensing Polymers / Tsuyoshi Michinobu and Yang Wang
Sensors: Natural Polymeric Composites / Ahmet Ulu and Burhan Ates
Sensors: Polymers in Sensing / Balaprasad Ankamwar and Saee Gharpure
Sensors: Zeolite–Polymer Composites for Gas Sensing / Muzzaffar Ahmad Mir, Muzzaffar Ahmad Bhat, Shiekh Abdul Majid and Radha Tomar
Separation: Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) in / Lei Yang, Xiaoguang Fan and Jing Zhang
Separation: Polymers in / Shahram Mehdipour-Ataei and Samal Babanzadeh
Smart Polymers: Lightweight Composites and Foams Tailored with Magnetic Field / L. Sorrentino, M. D’Auria and D. Davino
Smart Polymers: Molecularly Imprinted Polymers/ Mónica Díaz-Bao, Rocío Barreiro, Alberto Cepeda and Patricia Regal
Spin Coated Films of Polymeric Materials / Ayesha Kausar
Starch: Renewable Source for Thermoplastic / Ridhwan Jumaidina, Salit M. Sapuana, Mohammad Jawaid, Mohammad Ishak and Japar Saharie
Textile: Fiber Forming Polymers / Mohammad Mahbubul Hassan
Textile: Flame Retardancy Through Surface Engineering / Giulio Malucelli
Textile: Polymer-Based Materials / Ayesha Kausar
Textile: Stimuli-Responsive Polymers in / Desislava Staneva and Ivo Grabchev
Textile: Substrates Modification by Novel Polymers / Majid Montazer and Tina Harifi
Textiles: Novel Polymers / Bipin Kumar and Ning Pan
Textiles: Polymers and Fibers / Xuqing Liu, Xinyi Guan and Hongjun Yu
Thermogelling Polymers: Biomedical Applications / Gurpreet Kaur, Divya Thakur and Pallavi Bassi
Tissue Engineering: Polyhydroxyalkanoate-Based Materials and Composites / L. R. Lizarraga-Valderrama, C. Thomas, J. I. Cadiz-Miranda and I. Roy
Tissue Engineering: Polymeric Dermal Filler / Nattaya Lourith and Mayuree Kanlayavattanakul
Tissue Engineering: Polymeric Scaffolds for MSC-Based Cartilage / Samaneh Hosseini, Fatemeh Bagheri, Mohammad Amin Shamekhi and Mohamadreza Baghaban Eslaminejad
Tissue Engineering: Polymers in Soft Tissue Cartilage / Sunaina Indermun, Mershen Govender, Pradeep Kumar, Yahya E. Choonara amd Viness Pillay
Tissue Engineering: Thermoplastics for Scaffold / D. Purnima, S. Aparna, Namrata Verma, Karan Khubdikar, Anurag Patil and Anusha Iyangar
Value-Added Products from Natural Fibers Reinforced Composites / Yasir Beeran Pottathara, Deepu Ambika Gopakumar, Yves Grohens and Sabu Thomas
Veterinary Medicine: Polymers in / Olufunke Nwosu, Blessing Aderibigbe, Inge-Marie Petzer and Rebone Moerane
Water Treatment: Metal and Metal Oxide Asymmetric Poly(Ether)Sulfone Nanocomposite Membranes / Behnam Gohari, Kyle Russell, Benjamin Church and Nidal Abu-Zahra
Water Treatment: Polymers for Coagulation and Flocculation / A.Y. Zahrim, Z.D. Dexter and I. Azreen
Wholly Aromatic Polyamide-hydrazides / Nadia A. Mohamed