Being both strong and lightweight, composite materials have already found wide-ranging uses in structural and engineering contexts. Through advancements in materials science and engineering the potential for further applications of composite materials can be achieved by introducing functionality. Functional Composite Materials focuses on this exciting new generation of materials. Sitting at the intersection of physics, chemistry, materials science and engineering, we welcome contributions on all types of composite materials — the only caveat is that composite functionality must be clearly demonstrated.
Welcome to Functional Composite Materials
M. Dalémat
Featured collection - Emerging, Hybrid & Smart Composites
Edited by Christophe Binetruy and Véronique Michaud
Functional composite materials in principle advance the field of composites beyond their specific structural properties. The intrinsically heterogeneous nature of composite materials allows additional material phases to be introduced, with specific added properties such as electrical conductivity, magnetic properties, or integrated surface functions. This collection aims at displaying to experts and interested readers the diversity in contributions, class of materials, emerging areas, cross-disciplinary applications, specific challenges, opportunities.
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Featured collection - Sustainable Polymer Composites: Functionality and Applications
Edited by Fengwei (David) Xie
Due to the alarming environmental issues and our heavy reliance on finite resources, sustainability has been widely recognised as one of the most important goals of our research and technology development. Given this, sustainable materials, which are based on renewable resources and/or degradable under certain conditions into harmless substances, have attracted extensive interest. In particular, the smart design of sustainable polymer composites could endow such materials with appealing functionality, making them have enormous potential for many applications such as in packaging, construction, health, environmental and agricultural areas.
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Featured collection - Functional polymer composite materials for additive layer manufacturing
Edited by Francesca Nanni, Jean-Francois Gerard and Brigitte Voit
In the frame of the current industrial revolution, the role of functional materials processed by additive layer manufacturing (ALM) is essential, aiming to the realization of smart products. Polymers and their composites are the best candidates to realize functional materials due to their intrinsic versatility and processability via ALM to obtain components with innovative designs. This focuses on recent progress in functional polymeric materials ALM-related research.
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Surface functionalization of thermoset composite for infrared hybrid welding
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Impact of solar radiation on chemical structure and micromechanical properties of cellulose-based humidity-sensing material Cottonid
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3D printing of graphene-based polymeric nanocomposites for biomedical applications
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The impact of molded pulp product process on the mechanical properties of molded Bleached Chemi-Thermo-Mechanical Pulp
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3D printing of high performance polymer-bonded PEEK-NdFeB magnetic composite materials
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Fused deposition modelling (FDM) of composites of graphene nanoplatelets and polymers for high thermal conductivity: a mini-review
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Introducing Functional Composite Materials
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Carbonized lignosulfonate-based porous nanocomposites for adsorption of environmental contaminants
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Thermoelectric composite with enhanced figure of merit via interfacial doping
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- ISSN: 2522-5774 (electronic)