Carbon-Based Smart Materials

Presents technologies and key concepts to produce suitable smart materials and intelligent structures for sensing, information and communication technology, biomedical applications (drug delivery, hyperthermia therapy), self-healing, flexible memories and construction technologies. Novel developments of environmental friendly, cost-effective and scalable production processes are discussed by experts in the field. Smart materials react to changes in their environment, like compact, low-power sensors that can detect stimuli e.g. toxic chemicals, bio-hazards or radiation Promising applications in the textile industry, biomedicine, construction technologies Annotation Presents technologies and key concepts to produce suitable smart materials and intelligent structures for sensing, information and communication technology, spintronics, supercapacitors, biomedical applications (drug delivery, hyperthermia therapy), self-healing, flexible memories and construction technologies. Novel developments of environmental friendly, cost-effective and scalable production processes are discussed by experts in the field Preface Contents List of contributing authors 1 New class of graphene-based devices for the next generation of nonvolatile memories 2 Plasma surface activation and functionalization of carbon-based materials 3 Modeling carbon-based smart materials 4 Carbon nanotube-based materials for space applications 5 Molecular dynamics simulations of graphene-based polymer nanocomposites 6 Carbon from waste source for Li-ion battery Index