Responsive Polymer Materials: Design and Applications

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.