Smart Polymer Nanocomposites

1. Energy Harvesting: Breakthrough Technologies Through Polymer Composites
Saquib Ahmed, Sankha Banerjee, Udhay Sundar, Hector Ruiz, Sanjeev Kumar, Ajith Weerasinghe

2. Energy Harvesting from Crystalline and Conductive Polymer Composites
Aravind Kumar, Shaikh Faruque Ali, A. Arockiarajan

3. Ceramic-Based Polymer Nanocomposites as Piezoelectric Materials
Deepalekshmi Ponnamma, Mariem Mohamed Chamakh, Kalim Deshmukh, M. Basheer Ahamed, Alper Erturk, Pradeep Sharma, Mariam Al-Ali Al-Maadeed

4. Poly(3-Hexylthiophene) (P3HT), Poly(Gamma-Benzyl-l-Glutamate) (PBLG) and Poly(Methyl Methacrylate) (PMMA) as Energy Harvesting Materials
Zubair Ahmad, Muhammad Awais, Mansoor Ani Najeeb, R. A. Shakoor, Farid Touati

5. Self-healing Polymer Composites Based on Graphene and Carbon Nanotubes
Santwana Pati, Bhanu Pratap Singh, S. R. Dhakate

6. Self-healed Materials from Thermoplastic Polymer Composites
Venkatavijayan Subramanian, Dharmesh Varade

7. Molecular Design Approaches to Self-healing Materials from Polymer and its Nanocomposites
Jojo P. Joseph, Ashmeet Singh, Asish Pal

8. Self-healed Materials from Elastomeric Composites: Concepts, Strategies and Developments
Ramna Tripathi, Pratibha Sharma, Avneet Saini, Gaurav Verma

9. Nanocomposites for Extrinsic Self-healing Polymer Materials
Yongjing Wang, Duc Truong Pham, Chunqian Ji

10. A Brief Overview of Shape Memory Effect in Thermoplastic Polymers
M. Imran Khan, M. M. Zagho, R. A. Shakoor

11. Shape Memory Materials from Epoxy Matrix Composites
Loredana Santo, Fabrizio Quadrini

12. Shape Memory Behavior of Conducting Polymer Nanocomposites
Deepalekshmi Ponnamma, Yara Mohamed Hany El-Gawady, Mariappan Rajan, Solleti Goutham, Kalagadda Venkateswara Rao, Mariam Al-Ali Al-Maadeed

13. Functional Nanomaterials for Transparent Electrodes
Bananakere Nanjegowda Chandrashekar, A. S. Smitha, K. Jagadish, Namratha, S. Srikantaswamy, B. E. Kumara Swamy, Kishor Kumar Sadasivuni, S. Krishnaveni, K. Byrappa, Chun Cheng

14. Biodegradable Nanocomposites for Energy Harvesting, Self-healing, and Shape Memory
Deepu Thomas, John-John Cabibihan, Sasi Kumar, S. K. Khadheer Pasha, Dipankar Mandal, Meena Laad, Bal Chandra Yadav, S. I. Patil, Anil Ghule, Payal Mazumdar, Sunita Rattan, Kishor Kumar Sadasivuni

Keywords: Chemistry, Polymer Sciences, Nanotechnology, Energy Harvesting, Nanotechnology and Microengineering, Nanochemistry, Nanoscale Science and Technology