Edited by Christophe Binetruy (Centrale Nantes (GeM), Nantes, France) and Véronique Michaud (EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland)
Functional composite materials in principle advance the field of composites beyond their specific structural properties. The intrinsically heterogeneous nature of composite materials allows additional material phases to be introduced, with specific added properties such as electrical conductivity, magnetic properties, or integrated surface functions.
While significant progress has been made on these hybrid material systems, a complete understanding of their properties is necessary to tailor their functions for a given application. Specific challenges and opportunities fuel this dynamic research area.
This special collection in Functional Composite Materials aims at displaying to experts and interested readers the diversity in contributions, class of materials, emerging areas, cross-disciplinary applications, specific challenges, opportunities. This collection features a subset of papers originally selected to be presented at the 19th European Conference on Composite Materials (ECCM19) in June 2020 in Nantes, France, which was cancelled as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Articles will undergo all of the journal's standard peer review and editorial processes outlined in its submission guidelines
New articles will be added to the collection as they are published.