Complex Macromolecular Architectures: Synthesis, Characterization, and Self-Assembly

• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 834
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The field of CMA (complex macromolecular architecture) stands at the cutting edge of materials science, and has been a locus of intense research activity in recent years. This book gives an extensive description of the synthesis, characterization, and self-assembly of recently-developed advanced architectural materials with a number of potential applications.

The architectural polymers, including bio-conjugated hybrid polymers with poly(amino acid)s and gluco-polymers, star-branched and dendrimer-like hyperbranched polymers, cyclic polymers, dendrigraft polymers, rod-coil and helix-coil block copolymers, are introduced chapter by chapter in the book. In particular, the book also emphasizes the topic of synthetic breakthroughs by living/controlled polymerization since 2000.

Furthermore, renowned authors contribute on special topics such as helical polyisocyanates, metallopolymers, stereospecific polymers, hydrogen-bonded supramolecular polymers, conjugated polymers, and polyrotaxanes, which have attracted considerable interest as novel polymer materials with potential future applications. In addition, recent advances in reactive blending achieved with well-defined end-functionalized polymers are discussed from an industrial point of view. Topics on polymer-based nanotechnologies, including self-assembled architectures and suprastructures, nano-structured materials and devices, nanofabrication, surface nanostructures, and their AFM imaging analysis of hetero-phased polymers are also included.

• Provides comprehensive coverage of recently developed advanced architectural materialsContent:
  Chapter 1 Cyclic and Multicyclic Topological Polymers (pages 1–19): Takuya Yamamoto and Yasuyuki Tezuka
  Chapter 2 Ultrarapid Approaches to Mild Macromolecular Conjugation (pages 21–52): Andrew J. Inglis and Christopher Barner?Kowollik
  Chapter 3 Synthesis and Self?Assembly of Hydrogen?Bonded Supramolecular Polymers (pages 53–95): Wolfgang H. Binder, Claudia Enders, Florian Herbst and Katharina Hackethal
  Chapter 4 Recent Synthetic Developments in Miktoarm Star Polymers with More than Three Different Arms (pages 97–132): Akira Hirao, Mayumi Hayashi, Tomoya Higashihara and Nikos Hadjichristidis
  Chapter 5 Precise Synthesis of Dendrimer?Like Star?Branched Polymers, a New Class of Well?Defined Hyperbranched Polymers (pages 133–167): Hee?Soo Yoo and Akira Hirao
  Chapter 6 Arborescent Polymers with a Mesoscopic Scale (pages 169–194): Toufic Nabil Aridi and Mario Gauthier
  Chapter 7 Hyperbranched Glyco?Conjugated Polymers (pages 195–227): Toshifumi Satoh and Toyoji Kakuchi
  Chapter 8 Highly Branched Functional Polymer Architectures by Click?Chemistry Strategies (pages 229–265): Mieke Lammens and Filip Du Prez
  Chapter 9 Living Alkene Polymerization for Polyolefin Architectures (pages 267–316): Amelia M. Anderson?Wile, Joseph B. Edson and Geoffrey W. Coates
  Chapter 10 Precision Polyolefins (pages 317–347): Erik B. Berda and Kenneth B. Wagener
  Chapter 11 Polyhomologation: The Living Polymerization of Ylides (pages 349–376): Jun Luo and Kenneth J. Shea
  Chapter 12 Phenylenevinylene Homopolymers and Block Copolymers via Ring?Opening Metathesis Polymerization (pages 377–393): Chin?Yang Yu and Michael L. Turner
  Chapter 13 Block Copolymers Containing Rod Segments (pages 395–429): Tomoya Higashihara and Mitsuru Ueda
  Chapter 14 Synthesis of Well?Defined Poly(meth)acrylamides with Varied Stereoregularity by Living Anionic Polymerization (pages 431–460): Takashi Ishizone
  Chapter 15 Complex Macromolecular Chimeras (pages 461–489): Hermis Iatrou, Marinos Pitsikalis, Georgios Sakellariou and Nikos Hadjichristidis
  Chapter 16 Self?Assembly and Applications of Polyferrocenylsilane Block Copolymers (pages 491–526): George R. Whittell, Jessica Gwyther, David A. Rider and Ian Manners
  Chapter 17 Functional Polymeric Nanostructures Prepared by Self?Assembly and Beyond (pages 527–567): Rachel K. O'Reilly
  Chapter 18 Morphologies of Block and Star?Branched Polymers with Three Components (pages 569–591): Hirokazu Hasegawa
  Chapter 19 Morphologies and Photophysical Properties of Conjugated Rod–Coil Block Copolymers (pages 593–622): Chi?Ching Kuo, Cheng?Liang Liu and Wen?Chang Chen
  Chapter 20 Bulk Self?Assembly of Linear Hybrid Polypeptide?Based Diblock and Triblock Copolymers (pages 623–645): Sebastien Lecommandoux
  Chapter 21 AFM Study of Comb (Co)Polymers with Complex Chain Architecture (pages 647–683): Michel Schappacher and Alain Deffieux
  Chapter 22 Tunable Thermoresponsive Polymers by Molecular Design (pages 685–715): Richard Hoogenboom
  Chapter 23 Fluorine?Containing Block Copolymers: Synthesis and Application as a Template for Nanocellular and Porous Structures Using Supercritical Carbon Dioxide (pages 717–737): Hideaki Yokoyama and Kenji Sugiyama
  Chapter 24 Architectural Polymers, Nanostructures, and Hierarchical Structures from Block Copolymers (pages 739–761): Ian Wyman and Guojun Liu
  Chapter 25 Block Copolymer Nanostructured Thin Films for Advanced Patterning (pages 763–790): Michelle A. Chavis, Evan L. Schwartz and Christopher K. Ober
  Chapter 26 Ring Polymers: Effective Isolation and Unique Properties (pages 791–821): Haskell W. Beckham