Recent Advances in Lightweight Fiber-Reinforced Polymer Composites

Dear Colleagues,

Lightweight fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) composites are finding increasing applications in various industries including automotive, civil, marine, and aerospace industries due to their high specific strength, high corrosion and impact resistance, and high durability. Various fibers, synthetic or natural, short or continuous, have been utilized to develop FRP composites with tailorable properties. Furthermore, recent rapid advancement and reduced cost in manufacturing functional nanomaterials such as carbon-based nanomaterials (e.g., graphene, carbon nanotubes, carbon nanofibers), metal nanomaterials (silver nanowires, silver nanoparticles), metal oxide or carbide (zinc oxide nanoparticles, Mxene) enables to further tune FRP composites with new functionalities including self-sensing (structure health monitoring), energy storage, electromagnetic shielding, and so forth.

This Special Issue provides a platform for researchers to publish their work on exploring new design and fabrication methods for achieving tailored mechanical properties and new functionalities for FRP composites. Research and review articles are kindly invited for this Special Issue.

Dr. Shuying Wu
Guest Editor

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