Introducing advanced composites and hybrid materials

Abstract

It is our great pleasure to introduce the inaugural issue of Advanced Composites and Hybrid Materials, a new interdisciplinary journal published by Springer Nature. Advanced Composites and Hybrid Materials provides a dedicated publishing platform for academic and industry researchers and offers the composites and hybrid materials field an opportunity to publish their creative research to exchange newly generated knowledge.With the rapid advancement of materials science and engineering in twenty-first century, especially the development of nanoscience and nanotechnology, the new discoveries from diverse disciplines merge into a central hub of composites and hybrid materials. Composites are defined as materials with two or more constituents with significantly different physical or chemical properties (Fig. 1a). Composites cover a wider range of dimensions of mixing components, while hybrid usually refers to the constituents at the nanometer or molecular level. The revolution of new technologies in composites has generated great impact in every single corner of our daily life [1,2].Based on the matrix material, composites can be categorized into polymer composites, ceramic composites, carbon composites, and metal composites. One example of the composite from each category is provided: polymer composites in Fig. 1b [3, 4], ceramic composites in Fig. 1c [5], metal composites in Fig. 1d [6], and carbon composites in Fig. 1e [7]. Nanocomposites, with one dimension of any constituent less than 100 nm, experienced a fast development over the past two decades. The large specific surface area and unique physicochemical properties of nanofillers allow flexible design of nanocomposites with unprecedented functionalities. It is expected that research in nanocomposites will keep its energetic momentum in the next few decades since there are still a lot of challenges that need to be addressed with combined research efforts [8][9][10][11][12]. The integration of different constituents into one unit does not simply generate a mixed property, but also creates some new physicochemical properties that were not present in the individual components. For example, negative permittivity has been discovered in engineered polymer and carbon nanocomposites [13][14][15], which is not existed in traditional materials.

A review on thermally conductive polymeric composites: classification, measurement, model and equations, mechanism and fabrication methods

“…Unfortunately, the intrinsic low thermally conductive coefficient (λ) and insufficient thermal stability of polymeric matrix have restricted its broader application in the areas which require good heat dissipation and low thermal expansion [12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19].…”

Overview of the Experimental Trends in Water‐Assisted Injection Molding

“…Additionally, the morphological and structural evolutions of WAIM–molded polyolefin parts in the presence of NAs as well as fillers are still unclear. Especially, the mutifunctions are desired to satisfy various applications including sensing, structural materials, energy, electromagnetic interference (EMI) shielding, environmental remediation, etc . Therefore, additional efforts have to be made to further investigate and improve the WAIM technology for producing various nanocomposite parts.…”

Sustainable hybrid silica extracted from rice husk with polyvinyl alcohol and nicotinic acid as multi adsorbent for textile wastewater treatment

“…Hybrid materials, fabricated via chemical reaction, are usually consisting of two or more inorganic and organic compounds (Buehler et al 2012). The resulting hybrid materials usually acquire new properties that may be different from the parent's materials or improve the synergistic combination of both parent's materials characters (Nanko 2009;Gu et al 2018). Silica is characterized by unique surface morphology (pours, high surface area, non-toxic, and renewable) (Dorcheh and Abbasi 2008).…”