This book highlights the fundamentals and recent advances for developing novel polymer composites for various applications, including 3D printing, automotive, textiles, agriculture, nanogenerators, energy storage and biomedical engineering. It presents various facile processing techniques to prepare polymeric composites with attractive properties like mechanical strength, flexibility, thermal & electrical performances for end used applications from bench to field. This in-sight of properties, performances and utility will lead to technological applications of polymer composites. It provides a platform for evolving and expanding technological solutions for challenges in the contemporary world, and presents a concrete path for advancement in this domain of polymer composite for professionals, researchers, material scientists, and students.

Highlights various processing approaches for tailoring and developing polymer composites for different applications Offers a comprehensive overview of the basics and various applications of polymer composites Presents recent advances & fundamental phenomena in designing polymer composites, elastomers and polymeric nano-hybrids

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Dr. Srikanta Moharana is presently working as Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemistry at the Centurion University of Technology and Management, Odisha, India. He obtained his Ph.D. and M.Phil. degrees in Chemistry from the School of Chemistry, Sambalpur University, India. His research interests are in the areas of graphene, carbon nanotubes, ceramic polymer nanocomposites energy storage applications.

Dr. Bibhuti B. Sahu is presently working as an Associate Professor in the Department of Basic Science and Humanities, Nalanda Institute of Technology (NIT), Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India. **He obtained his Ph. D from Department of Physics, Veer Surendra Sai University of Technology (VSSUT), Burla, Odisha, India and MPhil.** degree from the school of Physics, Sambalpur University, Odisha, India. His research experience and interest are in ferrites, hexaferrites, dielectric & ferroelectric material, synthesis and application of composite materials in energy and magnetic applications.

Dr. Arpan Kumar Nayak obtained his PhD from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (IIT-KGP), India. He was a post-doctoral fellow at Hanyang University, South korea. Currently he is working as Research Professor at Department of Energy Engineering, Konkuk University, Korea. His current research mainly focuses on the synthesis of various nanostructured materials and carbon based materials towards environment and energy applications.

Dr. Santosh K. Tiwari received his PhD from IIT Dhanbad, India in Graphene based Polymer nanocomposites and then worked with HSCL, Hanyang University, Seoul, South Korea. In 2019 he joined the University of Guangxi, Nanning, China as a research faculty and then moved to Poland under the NAWA research grant from the Govt. of Poland where he worked as scientist in the Faculty of Chemistry, University of Warsaw, Poland. Presently, he is working as Assistant Professor at NMAMIT, Nitte University, Karnataka, India. His research interests are in the areas of advanced materials, carbon nanomaterials, Nanostructured Materials, Polymeric Materials, and Biodegradable Polymers.

Inhalt
Introduction of Polymers and Polymer Composites: Basic Fundamentals.- Synthesis and Processing Techniques of Polymer Composites.- Primary and Secondary Processing of Polymer Matrix Composites.- Characterization Techniques of Polymer Composites.- Reinforced Multiscale Polymer Composites, Properties and Applications.- Glass fiber-reinforced Polymer composites.- Hemp Fiber-Reinforced Poly Lactic Acid Composites: A Sustainable Materials for Engineering and Industry.- Polymer Composites: Testing and Analysis.- 3D Printing of Polymer and Polymer matrix composites.- Natural Fibre Reinforced Composites for Industrial Applications.- Elastomeric-based Composite Materials for Engineering Applications.- State-of-the-art in Textile Polymer Composites and Applications.- Polymer Composites for use in Nano-generators for Energy Harvesting.- Polymer Nanoparticle Composites for Modern Applications.- Polymer Composites for Electromagnetic Interference (EMI) Shielding Applications.- Polymer Composites forBiomedical Applications.- Piezoelectric Polymer Composites for Energy Harvesting. <p