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Composite materials, that is, materials that develop by mixing two or more basic constituents, are a topic of materials science with dramatically increasing interest [1–4]. Applications of fiber composite materials in particular have increased enormously as a result of their mechanical properties. Apart from these materials, applications of nanostructured composite materials, in which one or both of the basic components are structured in the nanometer region, are still in their early stages.
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Heilmann, A. (2003). Introduction. In: Polymer Films with Embedded Metal Nanoparticles. Springer Series in Materials Science, vol 52. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-05233-4_1
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