Responsive Polymer Materials: Design and ApplicationsISBN: 978-0-8138-2109-2
Hardcover
January 2006, Wiley-Blackwell
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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.