Carbon-Based Conductive Polymer Composites: Processing, Properties, and Applications in Flexible Strain Sensors

Carbon nanomaterials can transfer their excellent electrical conductivity to polymers while enhancing or maintaining their original mechanical properties. Conductive polymer composites based on carbon nanomaterials are finding increasing applications in aerospace, automotive, and electronic industries when flexibility or lightweight is required. Carbon-Based Conductive Polymer Composites: Processing, Properties, and Applications in Flexible Strain Sensors summarizes recent remarkable achievements in the processing-structure-property relationship of conductive polymer composites based on carbon nanomaterials. It also discusses research developments for their application in flexible strain sensors and novel processing methods like additive manufacturing.

• Presents the state of the art in conductive composite materials and their application in flexible strain sensors.
• Uniquely combines the processing, structure, properties, and applications of conductive polymer composites.
• Integrates theory and practice.
• Benefits plastics converters who wish to take full advantage of the potential of conductive plastic materials.

This book is written for material scientists and engineers researching and applying these advanced materials for a variety of applications.

Dong Xiang is an associate professor at Southwest Petroleum University, China. He obtained his Ph.D. from Queen’s University Belfast in 2015. His research interests mainly include conductive polymer composites, fiber-reinforced polymer composites, flexible strain sensors, and additive manufacturing. He is a guest editor of Frontiers in Materials and member of The Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering, Polymer Processing Society, and Chinese Society for Composite Materials. He has published over 70 research articles in journals such as Composites Science and Technology, Composites Part A and Composites Part B and 1 book, and obtained 20 Chinese patents. He was awarded the Alan Glanvill Award by the Institute of Materials, Minerals & Mining (IOM3), and the Young Scientist Medal by International Association of Advanced Materials (IAAM) in 2022.