Engineering applications of polymers and composites

The principal aim of this book is to introduce chemists through a tutorial approach to the use of microwaves by examining several experiments of microwave chemistry and materials processing.

This book introduces the recent progress that has resulted from utilizing the idea of "e;element-block polymers"e;.

This book highlights key advances that have occurred in the field of olefin conversion in recent years.

Control over macromolecular architecture and resulting material properties has been a central goal of polymer chemistry.

"e;Polymeric and Nanostructured Macromolecules"e; presents the recent advances made in the synthesis, characterization, and applications of polymeric macromolecules.

An outstanding international scientific event in the field of metathesis chemistry, the NATO ASI "e;Green Metathesis Chemistry: Great Challenges in Synthesis, Catalysis and Nanotechnology"e; has been recently organized in Bucharest, Romania (July 21- August 2, 2008).

The present volume includes most of the material of the invited lectures delivered at the NATO Advanced Study Institute "e;Morphogenesis through the interplay of nonlinear chemical instabilities and elastic active media"e; held from 2th to 14th July 2007 at the Institut d'Etudes Scientifiques de Cargese (http://www.

This book has emerged out of our long-time research interests on the topic of latex film formation.

The text features experimental investigations which use a variety of modern methods and theoretical modeling of surface structures and physicochemical processes which occur at solid surfaces.

This book covers all aspects of composite materials processing and manufacturing using microwave heating technology and their applications in various industrial processes.

This textbook covers the processing of advanced composites and their various technologies, with special emphasis on the distinct characteristics of processability.

The book is an excellent reference for scientists, researchers and students working in the field of areas of biopolymeric biomaterials, biomedical engineering, therapeutics, tissue engineering and regenerative medicine.

This book contains precisely referenced chapters, emphasizing environment-friendly polymer nanocomposites with basic fundamentals, practicality and alternatives to traditional nanocomposites through detailed reviews of different environmental friendly materials procured from different resources, their synthesis and applications using alternative green approaches.

This book contains precisely referenced chapters, emphasizing environment-friendly polymer nanocomposites with basic fundamentals, practicality and alternatives to traditional nanocomposites through detailed reviews of different environmental friendly materials procured from different resources, their synthesis and applications using alternative green approaches.

Molecular systems are assemblies of molecules designed to possess special qualities and desired functionality.

In this volume, the shock compression technology of materials is described in parallel with the latest research results and their background.

Molecular systems are assemblies of molecules designed to possess special qualities and desired functionality.

This book is the first publication to widely introduce the contributions of nanoarchitectonics to the development of functional materials and systems.

This book introduces the synthesis, electrochemical and photochemical properties, and device applications of metallo-supramolecular polymers, new kinds of polymers synthesized by the complexation of metal ions and organic ditopic ligands.

This book offers a comprehensive treatment of the molecular design, characterization, and physical chemistry of soft interfaces.

Plastics, films, and synthetic fibers are among typical examples of polymer materials fabricated industrially in massive quantities as the basis of modern social life.

This book focuses on photoswitches.

This book focuses on inorganic nanosheets, including various oxides, chalcogenides, and graphenes, that provide two-dimensional (2D) media to develop materials chemistry in broad fields such as electronics, photonics, environmental science, and biology.

In this book, a wide range subjects in biorheology are dealt with, from fundamentals to applications.

This book introduces analytical ultracentrifugation (AUC) as a whole, covering essential theoretical and practical aspects as well as its applications in both biological and non-biological systems.

This book is an introductory text for graduate students, researchers in industries, and those who are just beginning to work on organic electronics materials, devices and their applications.

This book provides in a concise form the principles and applications of flow microreactors in organic and polymer synthesis.

In this book the authors describe how they reproduced the redox functions of biocatalysts artificially.

This book reviews the key technologies and characteristics of the modern man-made specialty fibers mainly developed in Japan.

This book is the first to summarize new technologies for engineered cell manipulation.

In this thesis, the author describes versatile and easy-to-use methods to control the properties of thermoresponsive polyacrylamides by developing novel synthetic methods for end-functionalized poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) (PNIPAM) and block copolymers of poly(N,N-diethylacrylamide) (PDEAA).

This book focuses on the development of liquid crystal displays (LCDs) and liquid crystal materials (LCs) in Japan.

The subject of this book is the current comprehensive research and development of soft actuators, and encompasses interdisciplinary studies of materials science, mechanics, electronics, robotics and bioscience.

In biological systems, molecules hierarchically form ordered assemblies and macroscopic substances, as exemplified by the assembly of proteins.

This book covers broad aspects of the chemistry of p-stacked polymers and low-molecular-weight molecules, from synthesis through theory.

Today, young cosmetics researchers who have completed their graduate studies and have entered a cosmetics company are put through several years of training before they become qualified to design cosmetics formulations themselves.

Photochromism is the reversible phototransformation of a chemical species between two forms having different absorption spectra.

This book focuses on modern coordination chemistry, covering porous coordination polymers, metalloproteins, metallopeptides, nanoclusters, nanocapsules, aligned polymers, and fullerenes.

This book provides comprehensive coverage of smart biomaterials and their potential applications, a field that is developing at a very rapid pace.

This thesis focuses on porous monolithic materials that are not in the forms of particles, fibers, or films.

Nanostructured Materials for Food Packaging Applications brings together the latest advances in the preparation of nanostructured materials with the required properties and performance for food packaging applications.

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

The articles in this book summarize the work presented at the mid-term workshop of the COST (European Cooperation in the Fields of Scientific and Technical Research) action on Nanostructured Materials, which was held in October 2001 in Limerick, Ireland.

This supplement of Mikrochimica Acta contains selected papers from the Second Workshop of the European Microbeam Analysis Society (EMAS) "e;Modern Developments and Applications in Microbeam Analysis"e;, on which took place in May 1991 in Dubrovnik (Yugoslavia).

The articles in this book summarize the work presented at the final workshop of the COST (European Cooperation in the Field of Scientific and Technical Research) Action on Molecular Materials and Functional Polymers for Advanced Devices, which was held in June 2000 in Patras, Greece.