TY - CHAP AU - Lavinia Balan AU - Daniel-Joseph Lougnot ED - Boreddy Reddy Y1 - 2011-04-19 PY - 2011 T1 - Photochemically Implemented Metal/Polymer Nanocomposite Materials for Advanced Optical Applications N2 - Advances in Nanocomposites - Synthesis, Characterization and Industrial Applications was conceived as a comprehensive reference volume on various aspects of functional nanocomposites for engineering technologies. The term functional nanocomposites signifies a wide area of polymer/material science and engineering, involving the design, synthesis and study of nanocomposites of increasing structural sophistication and complexity useful for a wide range of chemical, physicochemical and biological/biomedical processes. "Emerging technologies" are also broadly understood to include new technological developments, beginning at the forefront of conventional industrial practices and extending into anticipated and speculative industries of the future. The scope of the present book on nanocomposites and applications extends far beyond emerging technologies. This book presents 40 chapters organized in four parts systematically providing a wealth of new ideas in design, synthesis and study of sophisticated nanocomposite structures. BT - Advances in Nanocomposites SP - Ch. 5 UR - https://doi.org/10.5772/14570 DO - 10.5772/14570 SN - PB - IntechOpen CY - Rijeka Y2 - 2024-04-19 ER -