Approx.478 pages

Professor Sabu Thomas is currently the Vice Chancellor of Mahatma Gandhi University and Director of the School of Energy Materials. He is also a full professor of Polymer Science and Engineering at the School of Chemical Sciences of Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, Kerala, India, and the Founder Director and Professor of the International and Interuniversity Centre for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology. Prof. Thomas has received international acclaim for his work in Nanoscience, Polymer Science and Engineering, Polymer Nanocomposites, Elastomers, Polymer Blends, Interpenetrating Polymer Networks, Polymer Membranes, Green Composites and Nanocomposites, Nanomedicine and Green Nanotechnology. Dr. Didier Rouxel is a Professor at the Institut Jean Lamour, Universite de Lorraine, France. Prof. Rouxel has been involved in the spectroscopic analysis of inorganics and is vastly experienced in the analysis of polymer nanocomposite systems by almost all spectroscopic techniques. His major areas of interest include elastic properties of polymeric materials studied by Brillouin spectroscopy, development of polymer nanocomposite materials, development of micro-devices based on electro-active polymers, piezoelectric nanocrystals, microsensor development for surgery, cell excitement in organic medium by piezoelectric polymers etc. He has written 80 publications, 6 book chapters and 138 communications. Dr. Deepalekshmi Ponnamma is a Lecturer in Materials Science and Technology, at the College of Arts and Sciences, Qatar University. She is a PhD graduate from the Deakin University, Australia, and finished the post-doctoral studies from Qatar University. She has a research experience of more than 10 years with special focus on polymer nanocomposites and various nanomaterials. Dr. Ponnamma has more than 100 research articles published in international peer reviewed journals. She has contributed around 20 book chapters and edited 9 books, all focusing on the various fabrication methods and applications of nanomaterials and polymer nanocomposites. For the past three years, Dr. Ponnamma has been working on synthesizing the different nanoarchitectures, polymer nanocomposites and block copolymer membranes for efficient technological applications such as energy storage, environmental applications including photocatalysis and water purification.

1. Spectroscopy: Advantages and application areas of polymer nanocomposites- State of the art, new challenges and opportunities 2. An overview of nanocomposite nanofillers & their functionalization 3. Thermodynamics, phase segregation, polymer morphology and interface/ interphases in polymer nanocomposites 4. Raman and tip-enhanced Raman scattering spectroscopy studies of polymer nanocomposites 5. Infrared and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy for nanofillers and their nanocomposites 6. Ultraviolet and visible spectroscopy studies of nanofillers and their polymer nanocomposites 7. Fluorescence spectroscopy of nanofillers and their polymer nanocomposites 8. NMR spectroscopy of polymer nanocomposites 9. EPR spectroscopy of polymer:fullerene nanocomposites 10. Dielectric spectroscopy and stimulated current analyses of polymer-ceramic nanocomposites 11. Photothermal spectroscopy of polymer nanocomposites 12. Brillouin spectroscopy of polymer nanocomposites 13. Moessbauer spectroscopy of polymer nanocomposites 14. X-ray diffraction spectroscopy of polymer nanocomposites 15. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy of nanofillers and their polymer nanocomposites