Exploring the Efficiency of Polymer Composites for Energy and Environmental Applications: Polymers for Societal Needs

Can advanced polymer materials help solve the world’s energy and environmental crises? A full-fledged and application-oriented, multidimensional study on polymer composites as multifunctional materials for sustainable technologies. This book interleaves fundamental polymer science with real-world applications in energy storage, electrocatalysis, pollutant removal, sensing, corrosion protection, and membrane systems. Instead of traditional materials texts, this work focuses on efficiency evaluation. It covers structure, composition, and interfacial engineering affecting a material's performance, durability, scalability, and sustainability. By studying a wide range of energy devices from supercapacitors to batteries and water-splitting systems, as well as environmental technologies such as adsorption, photocatalysis, and filtration, the book aims to provide a unified framework of multifunctional composite materials. This book, particularly designed for researchers, graduate students, and professionals in materials science, polymer chemistry, nanotechnology, energy engineering, and environmental science, highlights future trends such as smart composites, green synthesis, and AI-assisted material design, and presents polymer composites as key enablers of sustainable technological advancement.