Download or read book Nanocomposites and Polymers with Analytical Methods written by John Cuppoletti and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2011-08-09 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains 16 chapters. In the first part, there are 8 chapters describing new materials and analytic methods. These materials include chapters on gold nanoparticles and Sol-Gel metal oxides, nanocomposites with carbon nanotubes, methods of evaluation by depth sensing, and other methods. The second part contains 3 chapters featuring new materials with unique properties including optical non-linearities, new materials based on pulp fibers, and the properties of nano-filled polymers. The last part contains 5 chapters with applications of new materials for medical devices, anodes for lithium batteries, electroceramics, phase change materials and matrix active nanoparticles.