Current Trends in Polymer Research for Advanced Applications

With the rapid advancements in polymer research, polymers are finding newer applications such as scaffolds for tissue engineering, wound healing, flexible displays, and energy devices. In same spirit, this book covers key features of recent advancements in polymeric materials and their specialty applications. Divided into four sections namely biomedical applications, energy harvesting and storage, smart materials and nanocomposites, and specialty materials, it covers biopolymers, polymer-based biomaterials, polymer-based nanohybrids, polymer-based nanocomposites, polymer supported regenerative medicines, advanced polymers for microfluidic devices and advanced polymer device fabrication techniques.

Features:

Provides comprehensive review of all different polymers for applications in tissue engineering, biomedical implants, energy storage or conversion, and so forth.

Discusses advanced strategies in development of scaffolds for tissue engineering.

Elaborates various advanced fabrication techniques for polymeric devices.

Explores the nuances in polymer-based batteries and energy harvesting.

Reviews industrial process development for light weight polymeric syntactic foams.

This book aims at Academic researchers, industry personnel and graduate students of interdisciplinary fields of polymer and materials technology, composite engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Applied Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Advance polymer manufacturing, and additive manufacturing.