Hybrid and Hierarchical Composite Materials

1. Introduction
Tomoko Sano, US Army Research Lab
Charles L. Randow, US Army Research Lab
Changsoo Kim, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

Hybrid Composites

2. Organic-Inorganic Polymer Hybrids: Synthetic Strategies and Applications
Theodora Krasia-Christoforou,
University of Cyprus, Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering

3. Polymer-Tethered Nanoparticle Materials – An Emerging Platform for Multifunctional Hybrid Materials
Golda L. Chakkalakal, Subramanian Ramakrishnan
Department of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, FAMU-FSU College of Engineering
Michael Bockstaller, Department o f Materials Science and Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University

4. Multiferroic Magnetoelectric Composites/Hybrids
Yongke Yan and Shashank Priya, Bio-inspired Materials and Devices Laboratory Center for Energy Harvesting Materials and Systems (CEHMS), Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA

5. Clay/Polymer Nanocomposites: Processing, Properties and Applications
Vasanth Chakravarthy Shunmugasamy, Chongchen Xiang and Nikhil Gupta
Composite Materials and Mechanics Laboratory, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department, New York University Polytechnic School of Engineering, Brooklyn, NY 11201 USA

Hierarchical Composites

6. Medical Applications of Hierarchical Composites
Manoj Kumar R, Khelendra Agrawal, Debrupa Lahiri
Biomaterials and Multiscale Mechanics Lab
Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee, Roorkee – 247667, India

7. Electrochemical Hierarchical Composites
Yu Zhao, Lele Peng, and Guihua Yu,
Materials Science and Engineering Program and Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas

8. Bioinspired Structural Hierarchical Composites
André R. Studart, Complex Materials, Department of Materials, ETH Zurich 8093 Zurich, Switzerland
Randall M. Erb, Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts
Rafael Libanori, Complex Materials, Department of Materials, ETH Zurich 8093 Zurich, Switzerland


9. Hierarchical Composites Containing Carbon Nanotubes
Meisha L. Shofner, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia