Silicon Based Polymers: Advances in Synthesis and Supramolecular Organization

✍ Scribed by Bhanu P. S. Chauhan, Bharathi Balagam, Jitendra S. Rathore, Alok Sarkar (auth.), Dr François Ganachaud, Dr Sylvie Boileau, Pr Bruno Boury (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 289
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Silicon Based Polymers presents highlights in advanced research and technological innovations using macromolecular organosilicon compounds and systems, as presented in the 2007 ISPO congress. Silicon-containing materials and polymers are used all over the world and in a variety of industries, domestic products and high technology applications.

Among them, silicones are certainly the most well–known, however there are still new properties discovered and preparative processes developed all the time, therefore adding to their potential. Less known, but in preparation for the future, are other silicon containing-polymers which are now close to maturity and in fact some are already available like polysilsesquioxanes and polysilanes.

All these silicon based materials can adopt very different structures like chains, dendrimers, hyperbranched and networks, physical and chemical gels. The result is a vast array of materials with applications in various areas such as optics, electronics, ionic electrolytes, liquid crystals, biomaterials, ceramics and concrete, paints and coatings … all needed to face the environmental, energetical and technological issues of today. Some industrial aspects of the applications of these materials will also be presented.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-XVI
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
New Avenues, New Outcomes: Nanoparticle Catalysis for Polymer Makeovers....Pages 3-18
Polysiloxane Based Interpenetrating Polymer Networks: synthesis and Properties....Pages 19-28
Simple Strategies to Manipulate Hydrophilic Domains in Silicones....Pages 29-38
Aldehyde and Carboxy Functional Polysiloxanes....Pages 39-50
Molecular Devices. Chiral, Bichromophoric Silicones: Ordering Principles in Complex Molecules....Pages 51-63
Modified Azo-Polysiloxanes for Complex Photo-Sensible Supramolecular Systems....Pages 65-83
Thermoreversible Crosslinking of Silicones Using Acceptor-Donor Interactions....Pages 85-98
Star-shape Poly(vinylmethyl- co -dimethyl)siloxanes with Carbosilane Core – Synthesis and Application....Pages 99-118
Copolycondensation of Functional Silanes and Siloxanes in Solution Using tris(pentafluorophenyl)borane as a Catalyst in a View to Generate Hybrid Silicones....Pages 119-134
Hydrosilylation of Polymethylhydrogenosiloxanes in the Presence of Functional Molecules Such as Amines, Esters or Alcohols....Pages 135-151
High Refraction Index Polysiloxanes via Organometallic Routes – An Overview....Pages 153-161
Grafting β-Cyclodextrins to Silicone, Formulation of Emulsions and Encapsulation of Antifungal Drug....Pages 163-179
Glycosilicones....Pages 181-202
Front Matter....Pages 203-203
Silsesquioxane-Based Polymers: Synthesis of Phenylsilsesquioxanes with Double-Decker Structure and Their Polymers....Pages 205-211
Organosilica Mesoporous Materials with Double Functionality: Amino Groups and β-Cyclodextrin Synthesis and Properties....Pages 213-221
Direct synthesis of Mesoporous Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Silica Powders and Thin Films for Potential Non Linear Optic Applications....Pages 223-231
Self-Association in Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Silicon-Based Material Prepared by Surfactant-Free Sol-Gel of Organosilane....Pages 233-246
Front Matter....Pages 247-247
The Synthesis, Self-Assembly and Self-Organisation of Polysilane Block Copolymers....Pages 249-277
Back Matter....Pages 279-285

✦ Subjects

Organic Chemistry; Polymer Sciences; Materials Science, general; Characterization and Evaluation of Materials; Nanotechnology