Description
Book SynopsisThis 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.
Table of ContentsPreface.
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.
