Dendrimers III: Design, Dimension, Function

✍ Scribed by Uwe-Martin Wiesler, Tanja Weil, Klaus Müllen (auth.), Prof. Dr. Fritz Vögtle (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 205
• Series: Topics in Current Chemistry 212
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Following the first two volumes "Dendrimers" (TCC vol. 197) and "Dendrimers II" (TCC vol. 210), the third volume dealing with this topic is now appearing in print (the "tetralogy" on dendrimers will soon be completed with the fourth volume). The present volume comprises a collection of up-to-date reviews written by renowned pioneers of research in the dendrimer field, three of whom lectured at the 1. International Dendrimer Symposium (IDS-1 1999) in Frankfurt. A focus of this volume is the variety of material properties of soft and shape-persistent dendrimers. As its predecessors did, this volume breaks through the frontiers to neighboring disciplines and, in an interdisciplinary approach, addresses topics such as polydisperse, hyperbranched macromolecules (dendritic polymers), the analysis of shape and density by small-angle scattering techniques, finely dispersed metals (dendrimers as catalysts), and nanotechnology close to potential applications.

✦ Table of Contents

Nanosized Polyphenylene Dendrimers....Pages 1-40
Hyperbranched Polyesteramides — New Dendritic Polymers....Pages 41-80
Dendrimer-Encapsulated Metals and Semiconductors: Synthesis, Characterization, and Applications....Pages 81-135
Hyperbranched Macromolecules: Soft Particles with Adjustable Shape and Persistent Motion Capability....Pages 137-175
Structure of Dendrimers in Dilute Solution....Pages 177-194

✦ Subjects

Organic Chemistry; Biochemistry, general; Polymer Sciences