Möller M., Matyjaszewski K. (Eds.) Polymer Science: A Comprehensive Reference. Volume 8: Polymers for Advanced Functional Materials

Elsevier, 2012. - 502 p. - The progress in polymer science is revealed in essentially all chapters of "Polymer Science: A Comprehensive Reference".
Volume 8, edited by Muellen and Ober, expands these concepts focusing on applications in advanced technologies, e.g. in electronic industry and centers on combination with top down approach and functional properties like conductivity.
Common to all approaches in "Polymer Science: A Comprehensive Reference" is mastering an increasing complexity of the polymer materials structure needed for a change in focus from commodities to materials for various advanced applications, related to energy, environment, and biomedicine.
It provides broad and in-depth coverage of all aspects of polymer science from synthesis/polymerization, properties, and characterization methods and techniques to nanostructures, sustainability and energy, and biomedical uses of polymers.
It provides a definitive source for those entering or researching in this area by integrating the multidisciplinary aspects of the science into one unique, up-to-date reference work.
It includes electronic version that has complete cross-referencing and multi-media components.
Volume editors are world experts in their field (including a Nobel Prize winner).Introduction – Applications of Polymers
Top-Down versus Bottom-Up Patterning of Polymers
Photoresists and Advanced Patterning
Rapid Prototyping
Polymer-Based Sensors
Electroactive Liquid Crystalline Polymers
Ink-Jet Printing of Functional Polymers for Advanced Applications
Nanocomposites and Hybrid Materials
Polymer Photonics
Polymer-Based LEDs and Solar Cells
Optical Fibers
Adhesives and Sealants
Polymer Membranes
Polymer Additives
Stimuli-Responsive Polymer Systems
Graphene and Its Synthesis
Functionalized Carbon Nanotubes and Their Enhanced Polymers