Written by prominent international experts from industry and academia, the Wiley Encyclopedia of Composites, Second Edition presents over 260 new and revised articles addressing the new technological advances in properties, processing, formulation, design, analysis, evaluation, manufacture, testing, and reliability of composites. The entire range of industrial applications of composites is covered. The Encyclopedia is an invaluable resource for researchers in both library and professional settings and provides information about composite materials and related processing technologies.

Luigi Nicolais is currently a professor in the Department of Materials Engineering and Production at the University of Naples "Federico II." He is a member of the editorial board for several journals, including Polymer Composites, Composite Science and Technology, Polymer News, Journal of Materials Science, and the Journal of Applied Polymer Science.

Assunta Borzacchiello is a researcher at the Institute of Composite and Biomedical Materials (C.N.R) and a professor at the Interdisciplinary Research Centre on Biomaterials at the University of Naples "Federico II."

Founding Editor: Stuart M. Lee