Smart Materials

Polymers Science & Nano Engineering

Material science has a wider range of purposes which includes ceramics, composites and polymer materials. Bonding in ceramics and glasses uses each covalent and ionic-covalent kinds with SiO2 as a simple building block. Ceramics are as soft as clay or as hard as stone and concrete. Usually, they are crystalline in form. Most glasses contain a metallic oxide fused with silica. Applications vary from structural elements such as steel-reinforced concrete, to the gorilla glass. Polymers are additionally an essential section of substances science. Polymers are the uncooked materials which are used to make what we usually call plastics. Specialty plastics are substances with different characteristics, such as ultra-high strength, electrical conductivity, electro-fluorescence, high thermal stability. Plastics are divided now not on the foundation of their material but on its properties and applications. The world market for carbon fiber reached $1.8 billion in 2014, and in addition the market is expected to grow at a five-year CAGR (2015 to 2020) of 11.4%, to attain $3.5 billion in 2020. Carbon fiber reinforced plastic market reached $17.3 billion in 2014, and similarly the market is expected to grow at a five-year CAGR (2015 to 2020) of 12.3%, to reach $34.2 billion in 2020. The opposition in the global carbon fiber and carbon fiber bolstered plastic market is extreme inside a few giant players, such as Toray Toho, Mitsubishi, Hexcel, Formosa, SGL carbon, Cytec, Aksa, Hyosung, Sabic, etc.