Various methods have been employed to protect metals in assets from corrosion damage,
among which is the use of very efficient and economical organic coatings. The performance …

Polymers are widely used materials in aerospace, automotive, construction, medical devices
and pharmaceuticals. Polymers are being promoted rapidly due to their ease of …

Recent advances in the field of additive manufacturing (AM) or 3D printing, have garnered
serious interest for its potential to substitute time-consuming and costly subtractive and …

Stretchable rubber nanocomposites have been investigated for detection in piezoresistive
strain sensors. Tensile toughness must be improved while maintaining stretchability to …

Nanomaterials have, by definition, one or more dimension in the nanometer scale (≤ 100
nm) range and subsequently show novel properties from their bulk materials. The synthesis …

Cellulose fibrils with widths in the nanometer range are nature‐based materials with unique
and potentially useful features. Most importantly, these novel nanocelluloses open up the …

There are numerous examples where animals or plants synthesize extracellular high-
performance skeletal biocomposites consisting of a matrix reinforced by fibrous biopolymers …

Because of their wide abundance, their renewable and environmentally benign nature, and
their outstanding mechanical properties, a great deal of attention has been paid recently to …

The properties of engineering materials can be mapped, displaying the ranges of
mechanical, thermal, electrical and optical behavior they offer. These maps reveal that there …

Polymer nanocomposites offer a wide range of promising applications because of their
much enhanced properties arising from the reinforcement of nanoparticles. However, further …