Hybrid and Hierarchical Composite Materials, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2015

This book addresses a broad spectrum of areas in both hybrid materials and hierarchical composites, including recent development of processing technologies, structural designs, modern computer simulation techniques, and the relationships between the processing-structure-property-performance. Each topic is introduced at length with numerous  and detailed examples and over 150 illustrations.   In addition, the authors present a method of categorizing these materials, so that representative examples of all material classes are discussed.

1. Introduction Tomoko Sano, US Army Research Lab Charles L. Randow, US Army Research Lab Changsoo Kim, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Hybrid Composites 2. Organic-Inorganic Polymer Hybrids: Synthetic Strategies and Applications Theodora Krasia-Christoforou, University of Cyprus, Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering 3. Polymer-Tethered Nanoparticle Materials – An Emerging Platform for Multifunctional Hybrid Materials Golda L. Chakkalakal, Subramanian Ramakrishnan Department of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, FAMU-FSU College of Engineering Michael Bockstaller, Department o f Materials Science and Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University 4. Multiferroic Magnetoelectric Composites/Hybrids Yongke Yan and Shashank Priya, Bio-inspired Materials and Devices Laboratory Center for Energy Harvesting Materials and Systems (CEHMS), Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 5. Clay/Polymer Nanocomposites: Processing, Properties and Applications Vasanth Chakravarthy Shunmugasamy, Chongchen Xiang and Nikhil Gupta Composite Materials and Mechanics Laboratory, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department, New York University Polytechnic School of Engineering, Brooklyn, NY 11201 USA Hierarchical Composites 6. Medical Applications of Hierarchical Composites Manoj Kumar R, Khelendra Agrawal, Debrupa Lahiri Biomaterials and Multiscale Mechanics Lab Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Roorkee – 247667, India 7. Electrochemical Hierarchical Composites Yu Zhao, Lele Peng, and Guihua Yu, Materials Science and Engineering Program and Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas 8. Bioinspired Structural Hierarchical Composites André R. Studart, Complex Materials, Department of Materials, ETH Zurich 8093 Zurich, Switzerland Randall M. Erb, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts Rafael Libanori, Complex Materials, Department of Materials, ETH Zurich 8093 Zurich, Switzerland 9. Hierarchical Composites Containing Carbon Nanotubes Meisha L. Shofner, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia

Tomoko Sano, Ph.D. and Charles Randow, Ph.D. are engineers at the US Army Research Laboratory.

Prof. Changsson Kim is a faculty member of the Materials Science and Engineering Department at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.