Responsive Polymer Materials

This new book offers practical insights into the latest developments in responsive polymers, i.e., polymers engineered to alter structure and properties in response to environmental inputs. The book features original design, methodological, and application data.

Chemists, biochemists, and electronic engineers will find here important new material to understand and characterize molecular and submolecular assemblies that enable the fabrication of switch-driven polymer systems. Beginning from basic research and moving to single-molecular design, the contributors illuminate switching in self-assembled aggregates of polymer chains. These analyses are extended to the switching/changing of macroscopic properties in bulk and thin films.

The book demonstrates how the properties of responsive polymers such as morphology, wetting behavior, adhesion, roughness, permeability etc., can be modified to create and improve biomedical devices, chemical sensors, microfluidic devices, drug delivery systems, adhesion systems, and self-regulating colloids.

For specialists investigating the potential of molecular and submolecular polymer design, this book is essential.

Preface.

List of contributors.

1. Stimuli-Responsive Brushlike Macromoleculas.

2. Design of Responsive Water-Soluble Block Copolymers.

3. Azobenzene-Containing Photoswitchable Polymeric Langmuir-Blodgett-Kuhn Multilayer Films.

4. Stimuli-Responsive Semifluorinated Polymer Brushes.

5. Nanopatterning of Stimulus-Responsive Polymer Brushes by Scanning Probe and Electron Beam Lithography.

6. Responsive "Unary" Polymer Brushes with Active Anchoring Layer.

7. Mechanism of Phase Segregation in Binary Polymer Brushes: Three-Dimensional Experimental Analysis of Inner Structure.

8. Controlling Selective Adsorption on Patterned Gradient Y-Shaped Amphiphilic Brushes.

9. Responsive Polymers in Microfluidic Devices.

10. Nonspherical Colloidal Particles and Their Stimuli-Responsive Film Formation.

11. Responsive Siloxane-Based Polymeric Surfaces.

12. Nanostructured Composites Based on Polymer Gels.

13. Stimuli-Responsive Polyelectrolyte Microcapsules.

14. Gold Nanoparticle Enhanced Transmission Surface Plasmon Resonance Spectroscopy.

Index.

Sergiy Minko is a professor of materials science and has extensive research contacts in Europe, esp. Germany. This new book offers practical insights into the latest developments in responsive polymers, i.e., polymers engineered to alter structure and properties in response to environmental inputs. The book features original design, methodological, and application data.

Chemists, biochemists, and electronic engineers will find here important new material to understand and characterize molecular and submolecular assemblies that enable the fabrication of switch-driven polymer systems. Beginning from basic research and moving to single-molecular design, the contributors illuminate switching in self-assembled aggregates of polymer chains. These analyses are extended to the switching/changing of macroscopic properties in bulk and thin films.

The book demonstrates how the properties of responsive polymers such as morphology, wetting behavior, adhesion, roughness, permeability etc., can be modified to create and improve biomedical devices, chemical sensors, microfluidic devices, drug delivery systems, adhesion systems, and self-regulating colloids.

For specialists investigating the potential of molecular and submolecular polymer design, this book is essential.