Responsive Polymer Materials

This 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.

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.