Preface ....................................................... vii
Editors ........................................................ ix
Contributors ................................................. xiii
Section I Nanostructured Polymer Composites
1 Carbon Nanotube Polymer Composites ........................... 3
Alan Kin-Tak Lau
2 Processing, Properties, and Flow Behavior of Carbon
Nanofiber-Based Polymeric Nanocomposites .................... 23
Khalid Lafdi
3 Rheology in Polymer/Clay Nanocomposites: Mesoscale
Structure Development and Soft Glassy Dynamics .............. 57
Masami Okamoto
4 Polymer/Graphite Nanocomposites ............................. 79
Guohua Chen and Weifeng Zhao
5 Polymer Nanocomposite Flammability and Flame Retardancy .... 107
Alexander B. Morgan
Section II Nano-Bio Composites
6 Animal-Based Fiber-Reinforced Biocomposites ................ 139
Hoi-Yan Cheung
7 Biopolymeric Nanofibers for Tissue Engineering ............. 157
Yogita Krishnamachari
8 Potential Use of Polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) for
Biocomposite Development ................................... 193
Perrine Bordes, Eric Pottet, and Luc Averous
9 The Reductionist Approach to the Molecular and
Supramolecular Structures of Elastin ....................... 227
Antonio Mario Tamburro
10 Elastin and Elastin-Based Polymers ......................... 249
Daniela Quaglino, Deanna Guerra, and Ivonne Pasquali
Ronchetti
11 PLA-Based Bio- and Nanocomposites .......................... 275
Johannes Ganster and Hans-Peter Fink
12 Nanomaterials Formulation and Toxicity Impact .............. 291
Khalid Lafdi
Index ......................................................... 361
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