Polymer Science

Green and Smart Polymer Composites
Bridging Materials Science and Intelligent Technologies

Editors: Pijush Dutta, PhD
Mahuya Das, PhD
Barun Haldar, PhD
Korhan Cengiz, PhD

Green and Smart Polymer Composites

In production
Pub Date: Forthcoming May 2026
Hardback Price: $200 USD | £159 UK
Hard ISBN: 9781779644541
E-Book ISBN: 9781779644558
Pages: Est. 402 pages with
Binding Type: Hardback / ebook
Notes: 74 b/w illustrations


Reviews
“A timely and significant contribution . . . Offers valuable insights and a comprehensive overview of the state of the art. . . . It captures the essence of how artificial intelligence is harnessed to address the inherent complexities of polymer composite systems. . . . What makes this book particularly noteworthy is its blend of theoretical advancements and practical applications. It delves into methodologies that streamline material design processes while reducing experimentation time and costs. Equally, it highlights case studies where CI has successfully enabled breakthrough innovations in polymer composites, demonstrating the transformative potential of these technologies across industries.”
—From the Foreword by Dipankar Chattopadhyay, PhD, Professor, Dept. of Polymer Science and Engineering, Calcutta University, West Bengal, India

The field of polymer composite materials has long stood at the intersection of innovation, enabling the development of lightweight, durable, and multifunctional materials that power industries ranging from aerospace to consumer goods. With the advent of computational intelligence (CI) technologies, the design, modeling, and analysis of these materials have reached unprecedented levels of precision, efficiency, and sophistication. This new volume, Green and Smart Polymer Composites: Bridging Materials Science and Intelligent Technologies, helps to bridge the fundamentals to smart engineering in materials science. It provides current and important research on the study of polymers and finite composition of their composite materials along with computational intelligence techniques on polymer composite materials. it also discusses applications of smart polymers and presents a selection of case studies on polymer composite materials.

Mechanical characteristics, fatigue and creep behavior, temperature behavior, vibrational analysis, testing procedures, and modeling approaches are all covered in great depth in this book. The book also identifies the primary industry sectors—aeronautics, medical, aerospace, automotive, naval, energy, civic, sports, manufacturing, and even electronics that employ and benefit from the modeling of polymers and composite materials.

Applications of collagen-based materials in biomedicine, tissue engineering, and prosthetics; waste plant fiber-reinforced polymer composites; 3d scaffold architectures for tissue regeneration; artificial intelligence in predicting properties of composite materials; advancements in polymeric composite design for enhanced bone tissue engineering; and more.

This highly applications-oriented book describing the experimental, mathematical, and numerical analysis of polymers and composite materials will be helpful to academicians, researchers, scientists, engineers, and students and related subjects.

CONTENTS:
Foreword by Dipankar Chattopadhyay, PhD

Preface

PART 1: FUNDAMENTALS OF POLYMER COMPOSITE MATERIALS
1. An Introduction to Polymer-Based Composites
Sureshkumar P. and Niresh Jeyarajan

2. Collagen-Based Materials: Applications to Biomedicine, Tissue Engineering, and Prosthetics
Shyamal Mandal and Agnila Sen Gupta

PART 2: MATERIAL MODELING AND ANALYSIS OF POLYMER COMPOSITE MATERIALS
3. Waste Plant Fiber-Reinforced Polymer Composites and Their Biodegradability
Sarbani Ganguly, Rupa Bhattacharyya, and Susmita Karan

4. Natural Fiber for a Safer and Better Environment
Susmita Karan, Rupa Bhattacharyya, and Sarbani Ganguly

5. Fundamentals of Advanced Nontraditional Hybrid Micro-Machining Processes for Non-Conducting Composite Materials
Bijan.Mallick and Pijush Dutta

6. Transforming Tissue Regeneration: Exploring 3D Scaffold Architectures
Sandip Bag, Dibyendu Mandal, and Swastika Chatterjee

7. Surface Treatment of Natural Fiber-Reinforced Polymer Composites for Optimization of Properties
Ananya Barman, Trina Dutta, Mahuya Das, and Swagata Bhattacharjee

8. Natural Fiber-Reinforced PVC Composites for Property Modification and Optimization
Rupa Bhattacharyya, Susmita Karan, Sarbani Ganguly, and Sumit Nandi

PART 3: COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE TECHNIQUES ON POLYMER COMPOSITE MATERIALS
9. Artificial Intelligence in Predicting Properties of Composite Materials: Recent Trends, Challenges, and Future Perspectives
Anubrata Mondal, Kakali Das, Raushan Das, Amit Dey, and Pijush Dutta

10. AI-Based Prediction Model for Viscosity of Polymer Solutions with the Effects of Shear Rate, Concentration, and Temperature Using a Machine Learning Approach
Kakali Das, Anubrata Mondal, Rohit Pramanick, Ashok Kumar Manjhi, and Pijush Dutta

11. The Application of Natural Fiber Reinforces Polymer Composite and Their Application in Computational Intelligence
Sumanta Bhattacharya

12. Stacked Artificial Neural Networks for Advanced Material Prediction: A Data-Driven Approach to Modeling
Usharani Bhimavarapu

PART 4: APPLICATIONS AND CASE STUDIES ON POLYMER COMPOSITE MATERIALS
13. Advancements in Polymeric Composite Design for Enhanced Bone Tissue Engineering
Sandip Bag, Dibyendu Mandal, and Sriparna Kundu Sen

14. An Investigation on Mechanical Properties and Morphological Analysis of Carbon Fibre Powder Reinforced Hybrid Polymer Composite
Devaraj E. and Chandhrashekhar Bendigeri

Index


About the Authors / Editors:
Editors: Pijush Dutta, PhD
Assistant Professor and Head, Department of Electronics & Communication Engineering, Greater Kolkata College of Engineering and Management, West Bengal, India

Pijush Dutta, PhD, is working as an Assistant Professor and Head of the Department of Electronics & Communication Engineering, Greater Kolkata College of Engineering and Management, West Bengal, India. He has more than 11 years of teaching and more than seven years of research experience. Dr. Duttas research interests include sensor and transducer, nonlinear process control systems, mechatronics systems and control, optimization algorithms, intelligent systems, Internet of Things (IoT), machine learning and deep learning, etc. He holds 14 international and national patents and has published more than 100 research articles in international and national journals and conference proceedings. He has published 12 authored and edited books and has written seven book chapters with book publishers such as Elsevier and Springer. In addition, Dr. Dutta is also a reviewer for several SCI journals, including Soft Computing, Journal of Intelligence Systems, and many more. He received his PhD degree in 2022.

Mahuya Das, PhD
Professor of Chemistry, Greater Kolkata College of Engineering and Management, Baruipur, West Bengal, India

Mahuya Das, PhD, is presently working as a Professor of Chemistry at Greater Kolkata College of Engineering and Management, Baruipur, West Bengal, India. After receiving her doctoral degree, she was a visiting faculty and researcher at the Indian Institute of Engineering, Science and Technology, Shibpur, Howrah, India. She is also associated with the Department of Polymer Science and Technology, University of Calcutta as Guest faculty. Prof Das is working as a PhD Supervisor in the Department of Polymer Science and Technology and Department of Chemical Technology, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India. She was awarded a prestigious Senior Research Fellowship by CSIR, Government of India. She was also associated with the Indian Institute of Packaging, Kolkata Chapter, India, for eight years as guest faculty. She has more than 15 years of experience in teaching and research in the topics of polymer processing, materials science, nanotechnology, and polymer composite. Her areas of research interests includes nanomaterials, polymeric materials, reinforced polymer composite/nanocomposites, advance materials like graphene, nanoclay, CNT, CNF for improved packaging material, antibacterial property, thermal, and mechanical properties of the materials. She has designed various kinds of nanostructured materials for water treatment, packaging usage, anti-corrosion performance, superconductor properties, sensor behaviors and biomedical applications. She has more than 90 scientific publications to her credit, including research papers in SCI-indexed international journals and 18 book chapters in books by different publishers, including Elsevier, Scrivener, and Springer. She has six patents to her credits. Dr. Das completed her MTech and PhD at the Department of Polymer Science and Technology, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India.

Barun Haldar, PhD
Professor, Industrial Engineering Department, Imam Muhammad Ibn Saud Islamic University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Barun Haldar, PhD, is a distinguished academician and researcher in mechanical and industrial engineering. Currently, he serves as a Professor, Industrial Engineering Department, Imam Muhammad Ibn Saud Islamic University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Dr. Haldar, an ex-Principal of the Global Institute of Management and Technology, Krishnanagar, WB, India, began his teaching and research career in 2006 at the Birbhum Institute of Engineering and Technology, Suri, WB, India. He has over 50 research publications and two patents to date, and he has mentored of more than 10 masters and PhD theses. He earned his PhD in Laser Material Processing from Mechanical Engineering Department, IIT Kharagpur, following an MTech in Production Engineering from Kalyani Govt. Engineering College and a BE in Mechanical Engineering from IIEST, Shibpur, India.

Korhan Cengiz, PhD
Associate Professor, Department of Computer Engineering, Istinye University, Istanbul, Turkey

Korhan Cengiz, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Engineering, Istinye University, Istanbul, Turkey. He is also the chair of the research committee of the University of Fujairah, United Arab Emirates. He was formerly an Assistant Professor at the College of Information Technology in University of Fujairah, UAE. Dr. Cengiz is the author of over 40 SCI /SCI-E articles, published in IEEE Internet of Things Journal, IEEE Access, Expert Systems with Applications, Knowledge Based System, and ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks. He holds five international patents and has published more than 10 book chapters and one book in Turkish. He is also editor of more than 10 books. He is the Associate Editor of IEEE Potentials Magazine; Handling Editor of Microprocessors and Microsystems, Elsevier; and Associate Editor of IET Electronics Letters, IET Networks. He has also guest editorial positions in IEEE Internet of Things Magazine. He serves a several reviewer for several journals and holds several book editorial positions with IEEE, Springer, Elsevier, Wiley and CRC Press. He presented keynote talks at IEEE and Springer conferences. His research interests include wireless sensor networks, wireless communications, statistical signal processing, indoor positioning systems, Internet of Things, power electronics, and 5G. He earned his PhD degree in Electronics Engineering from Kadir University, Turkey.




Follow us for the latest from Apple Academic Press:
Copyright © 2026 Apple Academic Press Inc. All Rights Reserved.