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Carbon nanotube-based foams are three-dimensional macroscopic assemblies. This review emphasizes essential types of carbon nanotube-based foams including (i) neat carbon nanotube foam; (ii) carbon nanotube reinforced polymeric foam; and (iii) carbon nanotube foam reinforcement in polymers. Carbon nanotube foam retains intrinsic mechanical, thermal, and electrical properties for structural composites and energy devices. Polymer-anchored carbon nanotube foam are light weight, scalable, conductive, and thermally stable structures. Nanocomposite foams hold technological promise for electromagnetic interference shielding, fuel cell, supercapacitor, and superhydrophobic materials. High performance nanohybrid foams and new applications need to be focused for aerospace, space craft, tissue engineering, and biomedical industries.
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Ayesha Kausar
Ayesha Kausar works at National University of Sciences and Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan. She has previously worked for National Centre for Physics and Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan. She obtained her PhD from Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad/KAIST (Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology), Graduate School of EEWS, Daejeon, Republic of Korea. Her research interests include: synthesis, characterization and structure-property relationships of new polymeric materials; synthesis of nanomaterials including organic–inorganic nanocomposites/hybrid materials; polymeric blends via incorporating nanoparticles into thin polymer films; exploring practical and potential prospects of the novel synthesized materials (new polymers and nanomaterials) counting morphological, mechanical, thermal, electrical, conducting, etc.; flame retardant materials; proton conducting fuel cell membranes; nanocomposites for polymer Li-ion battery electrodes; composites based on electrospun nanofibers; production of various polymeric nanoparticles and their composites for solar cells; polymer/carbon nanotube/nanoparticle composites for water treatment; potential of polymer/graphite nanocomposites; polymer/graphene hybrids; polymer/fullerene nanomaterials; fabrication of epoxy-based nanocomposite for various applications; radar absorbing materials; aerospace relevance, and other technical relevances.