Nano-size Polymers Preparation, Properties, Applications
This book details all current techniques for converting bulk polymers into nano-size materials. The authors highlight various physical and chemical approaches for preparation of nano-size polymers. They describe the properties of these materials and
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Nano-size Polymers Preparation, Properties, Applications
Nano-size Polymers
Stoyko Fakirov Editor
Nano-size Polymers Preparation, Properties, Applications
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Editor Stoyko Fakirov Department of Mechanical Engineering The University of Auckland Auckland New Zealand
ISBN 978-3-319-39713-9 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-39715-3
ISBN 978-3-319-39715-3
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Preface
Nanomaterials and nanotechnologies are part of the most attractive areas of scientific research and commercial interest because they offer new opportunities for improving human life. Nanomaterials are materials with morphological features on the nano-range, which usually are defined as smaller than one-tenth of a micrometer in at least one direction, with special properties that stem from their nanoscale dimensions. A common characteristic of all nano-size materials, regardless of their chemical composition and method of preparation, is the extremely large ratio of surface area to volume. The natural tendency to reduce this free surface is the driving force for agglomeration of nanoparticles into larger formations. Nanomaterials are not new—they have been used for many centuries, but it is only in recent decades that their unique properties were demonstrated at the nano-scale, where quantum effects are possible. A revolutionary discovery in nanoscience was the preparation of carbon nanotubes. It turned out that this all-carbon material is the ideal material—it has the highest heat conductivity, electrical conductivity, mechanical properties, etc.—and thus attracted the attention of researchers from various fields, including polymer science and technology. For example, with tensile moduli in the terapascal range and le
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