Tailored Functional Materials for Clean and Sustainable Development

The use of tailored functional materials has grown enormously in recent years due to their wide-ranging applications in both science and engineering. This new volume explores the tailoring and characterization of modern materials with functional applications and for use in clean technologies in different sectors. The volume explains why the unique features of tailored nanomaterials make them ideal candidates for application in biosensor technology, pathogenic microbe detection, and modification of polyester-based ploymers. It summarizes polymer functionalization and their applications in medical science and engineering and provides an understading of tailored custom-designed solids along with computational chemistry, showing how the fast growth in solid materials has influenced different engineering sectors. With the inclusion of case studies in material science, the volume explains how tailored materials can be prepared and utilized as application-oriented composites.

Tamara Tatrishvili, PhD, is an Assistant Professor and the Main Specialist in the Office of Academic Process Management (Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences) at Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Georgia, where she is also Director of the Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry and Polymeric Materials. The author of more than 190 scientific publications, 12 books, and several monographs, she is the executive editor of the Journal of the Georgian Chemical Society. Neha Kanwar Rawat, PhD, is a researcher in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, India. She has published numerous peer-reviewed research articles in journals as well as many books and book chapters. She is a peer reviewer for international books and is a member of several professional groups, including the Royal Society of Chemistry and the American Chemical Society and a life member of the Asian Polymer Association. Ann Rose Abraham, PhD, is currently an Assistant Professor at the Department of Physics, Sacred Heart College, Thevara, Kochi, Kerala, India. She has research experience at national institutes and international labratories and is a frequent speaker at national and international conferences. She has authored many journal papers and book chapters and edited more than 20 books. A. K. Haghi, PhD, has published over 250 academic research-oriented books as well as over 1000 research papers in various journals and conference proceedings. He has received several grants, consulted for several major corporations, and is a frequent speaker to national and international audiences. He is Founder and former Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Chemoinformatics and Chemical Engineering and Polymers Research Journal. He has served as a member of the Canadian Research and Development Center of Sciences and Cultures and the Research Chemistry Centre, Coimbra, Portugal.

PART I: NANOTECHNOLOGY AND NANOMATERIALS 1. Carbon Nanotube and Fullerenes: Promising Materials for Biosensors Technology 2. Applications of Carbon Nanotubes in Pathogenic Microbe Detection 3. Cold Plasma: An Efficient Tool for Nanotechnological Modification of Polyester-Based Polymers PART II: APPLIED POLYMER MATERIALS 4. Effect of Bulk and Surface Properties of Polymeric Scaffolds on Their Applications in Tissue Engineering 5. Intricate Dissection of the Realm of Biopolymer Films in Regenerative Medicine and Other Pioneering Therapeutic Advances 6. Recent Progress in Conducting Polymeric Films for Biomedical Applications 7. Biopolymer Sustainable Films for Food Industries: Properties and Application Based on Chitosan 8. Biopolymer Matrices: Current Trends in Tissue Engineering 9. Biopolymer Sustainable Films: Mechanical and Biological Properties PART III: SOLID MATERIALS 10. Computational Analysis of X3O4 (X= Mn, Fe and Co) Nanofibers 11. Solid Materials for Applications in Life Sciences: An Introduction PART IV: COMPOSITE MATERIALS 12. Assessment of Technogenic Raw Materials for the Production of Glass Materials and Course on "Green" Growth 13. Synthesis and Investigation of Environmentally Friendly Silicon-Containing Carbohydrates Derivatives 14. Hot Shock Wave Consolidation and Syntheses of W-MG Composites 15. Some Aspects Concerning Conformation of Polypeptide Chains in Biosystems 16. Polymer-Based Fibers: The Role of Solution Rheology in Fibers Production PART V: ENERGY MATERIALS 17. Smart Nanomaterials in Energy Applications 18. Nanofibers for Energy Application