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Ding, W D Jahani, D Chang, E Alemdar, A Park, C B Sain, M, Composites Part A, in press, 2015. Agboola, O Sadiku, E R Mokrani, T, Carbon Containing Nanostructured Polymer Blends. Design and Applications of Nanostructured Polymer Blends and Nanocomposite Systems, Elsevier, 2016, pp. 187-213. 

In this section, the applications of SECM for the electrochemical characterization of nanocomposites are discussed. Synergy between two nanomaterials or between a nanomaterial and a macroscopic material is highly attractive for various electrochemical applications. SECM enables the screening of such nanocomposite systems with various mixing ratios to find the best composition. SECM has been also used to study the interactions of nanoparticles with biological macromolecules. The resultant biological nanocomposites are CTucial to the highly sensitive detection of DNA and proteins. 

As more sophisticated metal hydrides are developed (nanocrystalline, multicomponent systems, composites and nanocomposites, graphite/metals or similar hybrid systems, clusters, etc.), it is important to be a vare that, for practical applications, a large volume of material should be processed in a fast, inexpensive and reliable vay, for example casting. Techniques such as cold vapor deposition may be impossible to scale up but this does not mean they should be discarded as a means of studying new metal hydrides. On the contrary, laboratory techniques allow much better control of the end product and permit the elaboration of new compounds. Once an attractive compound is found then another challenge w ill have to be faced scaling up the synthesis. In this respect, it is important for the community of metal hydrides researchers to also study large-scale production techniques in order to make the transition from laboratory to industrial scale easier. 

As discussed earlier, while the scale of the fillers is substantially different, nanocomposite materials concepts and technology are very similar to those of conventional composite materials. This is clearly demonstrated in the case of new thermosets for nonlinear optical (NLO) applications, " " where nanocomposite of liquid crystalline thermosets, IPNs, and simple filled thermosets are evaluated. Tripathy et al. discussed four different ways to prepare nonlinear optical polymers. (1) The polymer matrix is doped with NLO moieties in a guest/host system (2) In side-chain polymer systems, NLO polymers with active moieties are covalently bonded as pendant groups (3) In the main chain polymer, the chromo-phores are incorporated as parts of the main polymer backbone to enhance the temporal stability of the NLO properties and (4) Stability of the optical noninearity in sol-gel-based thermosets is related to... 

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