Synopses & Reviews
Science of the stimuli-responsive materials, and in particular polymers and coatings will play a key role in the developments of future technologies and new knowledge in this field. The book provides the highlights for newcomes as well as a comprehensive review for experienced practitioners of recent advances to stimuli-responsive polymeric films and coatings. Two sections of the book focus on synthetic and physocao-chemical aspects and this book is a must to those involved in the growing field of nanotechnologies of stimuli-responsive polymers.
Table of Contents
1. Stimuli-Responsive Macromolecules and Polymeric Coatings,
Anna M. Urban and Marek W. UrbanSection I. Synthetic Aspects of Stimuli-Responsive Polymers
2. Controlling Polymer Chain Topology and Architecture by ATRP from Flat Surfaces, Joanna Pietrasik, Lindsay Bombalski, Brian Cusick, Jinyu Huang, Jeffrey Pyun, Tomasz Kowalewski, Krzysztof Matyjaszewski
3. Synthesis of Terminally Functionalized, (Co)Polymers via Reversible Addition Fragmentation Chain Transfer (RAFT) Polymerization and Subsequent Immobilization to Solid Surfaces with Potential Biosensor Applications, Charles W. Scales,+ Anthony J. Convertine,+ Brent S. Sumerlin,+ Andrew B. Lowe,± and Charles L. McCormick
4. Synthesis and Application of Polyelectrolyte Brushes, Stephen G. Boyes, Crystal Cyrus, Bulent Akgun, Adam Caplan, Brian Mirous, and William J. Brittain
5. Gradient Stimuli-Responsive Polymer Grafted Layers, Sergiy Minko, Leonid Ionov, Alexander Sydorenko, Nikolay Houbenov, Manfred Stamm, Bogdan Zdyrko, Viktor Klep, Igor Luzinov
6. Tailoring of Thin Polymer Films Chemisorbed onto Conductive Surfaces by Electrografting, Christine Jérôme and Robert Jérôme
Section II. Physico-Chemical Aspects of Stimuli-Responsive Polymers
7. Temperature-Responsive Films of Amphiphilic Poly(N-isopropylacrylamides) of Various Architectures at the Air/Water Interface, Roger C. W. Liu and Françoise M. Winnik
8. Stimuli-Responsive Behavior of Sodium Dodecyl Sulfate (SDS) and Sodium Dioctyl Sulfosuccinate (SDOSS) During Coalescence of Colloidal Particles, David J. Lestage, W. Reid Dreher, and Marek W. Urban
9. Fluorescence Methods for Latex Film Formation, Önder Pekcan and Ertan Arda
10. Finite Element Modeling for Scratch Damage of Polymers, G.T. Lim, J.N. Reddy and H.-J. Sue
11. An Artificial Neural Network Approach to Stimuli-Response Mechanisms in Complex Systems, Eduardo Nahmad-Achar1 and Javier E. Vitela
12. Maleimide/Vinyl Ether Based Polymer Dispersed Liquid Crystals, Molly Hladik, Joe Whitehead, and Charles Hoyle
13. Supramolecular Porous and Inclusion Solids; A Prospective Class of Functional Materials, Dmitriy V. Soldatov