Handbook Of Stimuli-Responsive Materials

The Handbook on Stimuli-Responsive Materials is providing the scientific community with the comprehensive developments of scientific findings and advanced technologies - all necessary factors to propel the development of polymeric, ceramic, metallic, composite, bio and the combination of thereof, materials to the position of controllable responses under defined, predictable, yet complex internal and external conditions.

The primary focus of the proposed Handbook is on designing, formulating, and processing of materials that lead to the understanding of scientific principles of their response-driven functions and processes leading to response-driven behaviors.

The volume gathers leading scientists from the inter-disciplinary areas of polymers, biopolymers, biochemistry, and biophysics, biomaterials, bioengineering, materials engineering and biotechnology, chemistry and physics, ceramic and metals, and materials science.

Marek W. Urban is internationally recognized scientist and scholar in the area of chemical physics of polymeric stimuli-responsive materials. He is a professor of polymer science and engineering in the School of Polymers and High Performance Materials at the University of Southern Mississippi and director of Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC). He has authored over 300 research papers, three books, and edited 8 American Chemical Society Advances in Chemistry Series books. He chaired the Gordon Research Conference on Polymer Films and Coatings and is the recipient of numerous awards. Current focus of his research is on stimuli-responsive polymeric materials and molecular level processes which govern their behavior.

Preface.

List of Contributors.

1 Synthetic and Physicochemical Aspects of Advanced Stimuli-Responsive Polymers (Dirk Kuckling and Marek W. Urban).

1.1 Introduction.

1.2 Controlled Free Radical Polymerization of Stimuli-Responsive Polymers.

1.3 Synthesis of Stimuli-Responsive Colloidal Dispersions.

1.4 Summary.

References.

2 Biological- and Field-Responsive Polymers: Expanding Potential in Smart Materials (Debashish Roy, Jennifer N. Cambre, and Brent S. Sumerlin).

2.1 Introduction.

2.2 Biologically Responsive Polymer Systems.

2.3 Field-Responsive Polymers.

2.4 Conclusions.

References.

3 Self-Oscillating Gels as Stimuli-Responsive Materials (Anna C. Balazs, Pratyush Dayal, Olga Kuksenok, and Victor V. Yashin).

3.1 Introduction.

3.2 Methodology.

3.3 Results and Discussions.

3.4 Conclusions.

Acknowledgments.

References.

4 Self-Repairing Polymeric Materials (Biswajit Ghosh, Cathrin C. Corten, and Marek W. Urban).

4.1 Introduction.

4.2 Damage and Repair Mechanisms in Polymers.

4.3 Summary.

References.

5 Stimuli-Driven Assembly of Chromogenic Dye Molecules: a Versatile Approach for the Design of Responsive Polymers (Brian Makowski, Jill Kunzelman, and Christoph Weder).

5.1 Introduction.

5.2 Excimer-Forming Sensor Molecules.

5.3 Fluorescent Mechanochromic Sensors.

5.4 Thermochromic Sensors.

5.5 Chemical Sensing with Excimer-Forming Dyes.

5.6 Summary and Outlook.

Acknowledgments.

References.

6 Switchable Surface Approaches (Aftin M. Ross, Himabindu Nandivada, and Joerg Lahann).

6.1 Introduction.

6.2 Electroactive Materials.

6.3 Photoresponsive Materials.

6.4 pH-Responsive Materials.

6.5 Thermoresponsive Materials.

6.6 Switchable Surfaces Based on Supramolecular Shuttles.

6.7 Switchable Surfaces Comprising DNA and Peptide Monolayers.

6.8 Summary.

References.

7 Layer-by-Layer Self-Assembled Multilayer Stimuli-Responsive Polymeric Films (Lei Zhai).

7.1 Introduction.

7.2 Fabrication of Multilayer Polymer Coatings.

7.3 Response of Multilayer Polymer Coatings to External Stimuli.

7.4 Conclusion and Outlook.

References.

Further Reading.

8 Photorefractive Polymers (Kishore V. Chellapan, Rani Joseph, and Dhanya Ramachandran).

8.1 Introduction.

8.2 The Photorefractive Effect in Polymers.

8.3 The Two-Beam Coupling Effect.

8.4 High-Performance Photorefractive Polymers.

8.5 Experimental Techniques.

8.6 Conclusions.

References.

9 Photochromic Responses in Polymer Matrices (Dhanya Ramachandran and Marek W. Urban).

9.1 Introduction.

9.2 Photochromic Polymeric Systems.

9.3 Photochromic Systems.

9.4 Outlook of Photochromic Materials.

Acknowledgments.

References.

10 Covalent Bonding of Functional Coatings on Conductive Materials: the Electrochemical Approach (Michaël Cécius and Christine Jérôme).

10.1 Introduction.

10.2 Electrodeposited Coatings.

10.3 Electrografted Coatings.

10.4 Compounds Requiring an Anodic Process.

10.5 Compounds Requiring a Cathodic Process.

10.6 Conclusions.

References.

Index.