Sustainable Epoxy Thermosets and Nanocomposites

Applications of sustainable materials from commodity to advanced products

Because of their advanced multifaceted applications and eco-friendly nature, sustainable epoxy thermosetting nanocomposites are considered modern materials. They find applications in a wide range of fields, from active surface coating to biomedical technologies, including structural engineering, catalysis, smart materials, and electronics. This work presents a comprehensive review on epoxy nanocomposites, including nanomaterial types and their preparation, functionalization, properties and applications. Chapters also cover fundamental concepts of epoxy thermosets and in-depth discussions of novel thermosetting materials, their modifications and biocomposites.

Niranjan Karak, FRSC (London), M.Sc., M.Tech., Ph.D. (IIT Kharagpur) is Dean, Research And Development of Tezpur University (TU) and a Professor of Polymer Science and Nanomaterials, Chemical Sciences Department (former HoD) and former Head, Sophisticated and Analytical Instrumentation Center (SAIC)
of TU. Prof. Karak also served as a Post-doctoral Fellow at the Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) and Visiting Professor of Prof. J. W. Cho's Laboratory, Department of Textile Engineering, Konkuk University, South Korea, as well as a Guest Researcher at the Leibniz
Institute of Polymer Research, Dresden, Germany. He has approximately 24 years and 6 months of academic experience and more than one year of industrial experience in the field.

Dr. Karak has published approximately 244 research papers including review articles in reputed national and international journals and presented numerous invited talks in India and abroad based on the findings of his research group. He is also the author of five books and editor/co-editor of three
additional books. He has also written fifteen chapters in different edited books. His research papers are cited in various text/reference books and journals (h-index = 49, i10-index=192, citation= 9287, Google scholar as of September 15, 2021).

Dr. Karak has two Indian patents and three more filed on his innovative works. He has executed 12 government sponsored research projects and five consultancy projects in different industries. Prof. Karak guided 21 research scholars in earning their Ph.D. degree (six more are pursuing) and seven
post-doctoral fellows along with many MSc/MTech projects. His fields of research interest are mainly based on biobased high performance hyperbranched polymers and nanomaterials and their nanocomposites as sustainable advanced multifaceted materials. Prof. Karak has been credited with nine national
awards from different academic societies including 'The president of India', Ministry of Fertilizer and Chemicals, Government of India and Polymer Society of India, and nine international recognitions (including one of the most highly prolific authors for ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering in
the world, 2016, one of the top Indian authors ACS Omega, 2019 and Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry), for his outstanding contributions in the field.

Preface

Chapter 1: Overview of Epoxies and Their Thermosets
Chapter 2: Modification of Epoxies
Chapter 3: Epoxy Biocomposites
Chapter 4: Epoxy Nanocomposites with Silicon-Based Nanomaterials
Chapter 5: Epoxy Nanocomposites with Graphene Derivatives
Chapter 6: Epoxy Nanocomposites with Carbon Nanotubes
Chapter 7: Nanocomposites of Epoxy and Carbon Dots
Chapter 8: Nanocomposites of Epoxy and Cellulosic Nanomaterials
Chapter 9: Nanocomposites of Epoxy and Metal Nanoparticles
Chapter 10: Nanocomposites of Epoxy and Metal Oxide Nanoparticles
Chapter 11: Nanocomposites of Epoxy and Other Miscellaneous Nanomaterials

Editor's Biography
Author Index
Subject Index