Key Features
- 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
- 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
- Electronic version has complete cross-referencing and multi-media components
- Volume editors are world experts in their field (including a Nobel Prize winner)
- 269 chapters covering all aspects of polymer science from synthesis, characterization, properties and nanostructures to biomedical uses, sustainability and energy applications
Description
The progress in polymer science is revealed in essentially all chapters of Polymer Science: A Comprehensive Reference. In Volume 1, edited by Khokhlov and Kremer, this is reflected in the improved understanding of the properties of polymers in solution, in bulk and in confined situations such as in thin films. Volume 2, edited by Spiess, Hashimoto and Takenaka, addresses new characterization techniques, such as high resolution optical microscopy, scanning probe microscopy and other procedures for surface and interface characterization. Volume 3, edited by Coates and Sawamoto, presents the great progress achieved in precise synthetic polymerization techniques for vinyl monomers to control macromolecular architecture: the development of metallocene and post-metallocene catalysis for olefin polymerization, new ionic polymerization procedures, and atom transfer radical polymerization, nitroxide mediated polymerization, and reversible addition-fragmentation chain transfer systems as the most often used controlled/living radical polymerization methods. Volume 4, edited by Penczek and Grubbs, is devoted to kinetics, mechanisms and applications of ring opening polymerization of heterocyclic monomers and cycloolefins (ROMP), as well as to various less common polymerization techniques. Polycondensation and non-chain polymerizations, including dendrimer synthesis and various "click" procedures, are covered in Volume 5, edited by Schmidt and Ueda. Volume 6, edited by Mueller and Wooley, focuses on several aspects of controlled macromolecular architectures and soft nano-objects including hybrids and bioconjugates. Many of the achievements would have not been possible without new characterization techniques like AFM that allowed direct imaging of single molecules and nano-objects with a precision available only recently. An entirely new aspect in polymer science is based on the combination of bottom-up methods such as polymer synthesis and molecularly programmed self-assembly with top-down structuring such as lithography and surface templating, as presented in volume 7, edited by Kumacheva and Russell. It encompasses polymer and nanoparticle assembly in bulk and under confined conditions or influenced by an external field, including thin films, inorganic-organic hybrids, or nanofibers. 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. Another type of functionality that is of rapidly increasing importance in polymer science is introduced in volume 9, edited by Langer and Tirrell. It deals with various aspects of polymers in biology and medicine, including the response of living cells and tissue to the contact with biofunctional particles and surfaces. The last volume 10, edited by Hoefer, Hickner and McGrath, is devoted to the scope and potential provided by environmentally benign and green polymers, as well as energy-related polymers. They discuss new technologies needed for a sustainable economy in our world of limited resources. 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.
Readership
The work will be suitable for graduate students and above studying the subfield of materials science concerned with polymers. It may also be applicable to chemists, chemical engineers, material scientists, polymer scientists, environmental scientists and biologists in academia and government or corporate research labs.
Polymer Science: A Comprehensive Reference, 10 Volume Set, 1st Edition
Volume 1: Basic Concepts and Polymer Properties
Volume 2: Polymer Characterization
Volume 3: Chain Polymerization of Vinyl Monomers
Volume 4: Ring-opening polymerization and special polymerization processes
Volume 5: Polycondensation
Volume 6: Macromolecular Architectures and Soft Nano-objects
Volume 7: Nanostructured Polymer Materials and Thin Films
Volume 8: Polymers for Advanced Functional Materials
Volume 9: Polymers in Biology and Medicine
Volume 10: Polymers for a Sustainable Environment and Green Energy
Full table of contents:
1.01 Basic Concepts and Polymer Properties
1.02 Statistical description of chain molecules
1.03 Polymer synthesis
1.04 Polymer solutions | Static and dynamic properties
1.05 Solutions of Charged Polymers
1.06 Viscoelasticity and molecular rheology
1.07 Rubberlike Elasticity
1.08 Amorphous Polymers
1.09 Semicrystalline Polymers
1.10 Liquid Crystalline Polymers
1.11 Phase segregation /Polymer Blends/Microphase separation
1.12 Polymer/Colloid Interactions and Soft Polymer Colloids
1.13 Polymer Gels
1.14 Single Polymer Molecules at Surfaces | Conformation and Manipulation
1.15 Polymers at interfaces and surfaces and in confined geometries
1.16 Molecular Dynamics Simulations in Polymer Science: Methods and Main Results
1.17 Monte-Carlo simulations in polymer science
1.18 Polymer nomenclature
2.01 Introduction and Perspectives
2.02 Characterization of Solutions | Polymer Properties in Solutions
2.03 Characterization by Separation Methods | Chromatography
2.04 Characterization by Separation Methods | Fractionation
2.05 Characterization by Separation Methods | Mass Spectrometry: MALDI (Matrix-assisted Laser Desorption/Ionization) and ESI (Electro Spray Ionization)
2.06 Characterization by Spectroscopy | Solution NMR
2.07 Characterization by Spectroscopy | Solid-State NMR of Polymers
2.08 Characterization by Spectroscopy | Electron Spin Resonance Spectroscopy
2.09 Characterization by Spectroscopy | Vibrational Spectroscopy
2.10 Structure Characterization in Fourier Space | Light Scattering
2.11 Structure Characterization in Fourier Space | Neutron Scattering
2.12 Structure Characterization in Fourier Space | SAXS and WAXS
2.13 Structure Characterization in Fourier Space | Combined Small-Angle Scattering for Characterization of Hierarchically Structured Polymer Systems over Nano-to-Micron Meter | Part I Experiments
2.14 Structure Characterization in Fourier Space | Combined Small-Angle Scattering for Characterization of Hierarchically Structured Polymer Systems over Nano-to-Micron Meter |Part II. Theory
2.15 Structure Characterization in Fourier Space | Reflectivity, off-specular scattering and GI-SAS: Neutrons
2.16 Structure Characterization in Fourier Space | Reflectivity, GI-SAS and GI-Diffraction: X-ray
2.17 Structure Characterization in Real Space | Advanced Optical Microscopy
2.18 Structure Characterization in Real Space | Fluorescence microscopy, single fluorophores and nanoreporters, super resolution far field microscopy
2.20 Structure Characterization in Real Space | Transmission Electron Microtomography
2.19 Structure Characterization in Real Space | Electron microscopy of organic materials: an overview and review of recent developments
2.21 Structure Characterization in Real Space | Environmental Scanning Electron Microscopy
2.22 Structure Characterization in Real Space | Micro X-ray CT
2.23 Surface & Interface Characterization | Scanning Probe Microscopy of Polymers
2.24 Surface & Interface Characterization | Adhesion, Friction, and Lubrication between Polymer-Bearing Surfaces
2.25 Surface & Interface Characterization | Single Molecule Detection & Manipulation
2.26 Surface & Interface Characterization | Plasmonics
2.27 Surface & Interface Characterization | Ion Beam Analysis
2.28 Surface & Interface Characterization | Rheological Characterization of Polymeric Liquids
2.29 Surface & Interface Characterization | Mechanical characterization of glassy polymers: quantitative prediction of their short- and long-term responses
2.30 Thermal, Mechanical, Dielectric, and Electric Characterization | Rheo-Optics
2.31 Thermal, Mechanical, Dielectric, and Electric Characterization | Thermal Analysis
2.32 Surface & Interface Characterization | Dielectric Spectroscopy
2.33 Thermal, Mechanical, Dielectric, and Electric Characterization | Conductivity Measurements
3.01 Introduction
3.02 Fundamental Aspects of Chain Polymerization
3.03 Radical Reactivity by Computation and Experiment
3.04 Radical Polymerization
3.05 Controlled and Living Radical Polymerization-Principles and Fundamentals
3.06 Degenerative Transfer with Alkyl Iodide
3.07 Radical Addition-Fragmentation Chemistry and RAFT Polymerization
3.08 Other Degenerative Transfer Systems
3.09 Cobalt-Catalyzed Chain Transfer Polymerization: A review
3.10 Nitroxide Mediated Polymerization
3.11 Organometallic Mediated Radical Polymerization
3.12 Cu-Based ATRP
3.13 ATRP with Other Metals
3.14 Vinyl Polymerization in Heterogeneous Media
3.15 Cationic Polymerization of Non-Polar Vinyl Monomers
3.16 Cationic Polymerization of Polar Monomers
3.17 Anionic Polymerization of Non-Polar Monomers
3.18 Anionic Polymerization of Protected Functional Monomers
3.19 Anionic Polymerization of Polar Vinyl Monomers
3.20 Industrial Catalysts for Alkene Polymerization
3.21 Metallocene Alkene Polymerization Catalysts
3.22 Chain-Shuttling Catalysts
3.23 Living Transition Metal Catalyzed Alkene Polymerization: Polyolefin Synthesis and New Polymer Architectures
3.24 Copolymerization of Alkenes and Polar Monomers by Early- and Late-Transition Metal Catalysts
3.25 Alkene/CO Copolymerization
3.26 Cycloolefin Polymerization
3.27 Alkyne Polymerization
4.01 Introduction
4.02 Thermodynamic and Kinetic Polymerizability
4.03 Living Olefin Metathesis Polymerization (ROMP)
4.04 Ring-chain equilibria
4.05 Equilibrium Copolymerization in Ring Opening Polymerization
4.06 Organocatalyzed Ring-Opening Polymerizations
4.07 Anionic Ring - Opening Polymerization of Epoxides and Related Nucleophilic Polymerization Processes
4.08 Cationic ROP of cyclic ethers
4.09 Stereoselective Ring-Opening Polymerization of Epoxides
4.10 Ring-Opening Polymerization of Cyclic Acetals
4.11 ROP of Cyclic Esters. Mechanisms of Ionic and Corrdinate Processes
4.12 ROP of Cyclic carbonates & ROP of Macrocycles
4.13 ROP of Cyclic amines and sulfides
4.14 ROP of Cyclic amides (Lactams)
4.15 Polymerization of Oxazolines
4.16 Ring-Opening Polymerization of amino acid-N-carboxyanhydrides (NCAs)
4.17 Polymerization of Cyclic Siloxanes, Silanes, and Related Monomers
4.18 Cyclic phosphorus monomers
4.19 Radical ROP
4.20 Architecture of ROMP polymers
4.21 High-Molecular-Weight PEO
4.22 Nonlinear Macromolecules by Ring-Opening Polymerization
4.23 Current and Forthcoming Applications of ROMP-Derived Polymers: Functional Surfaces and Supports
4.24 Chain Extension by Ring Opening
4.25 Ring-Opening Dispersion Polymerization
4.26 Ring Opening Metathesis Polymerization (Romp) in the Synthesis of Conjugated Polymers
4.27 Oligomeric Poly(ethylene oxide)s. Functionalized Poly(ethylene glycol)s. PEGylation
4.28 Current and forthcoming applications of ROMP polymers - Biorelated polymers
4.29 Polyphosphoesters: Controlled Ring-Opening Polymerization and Biological Applications
4.30 Industrial applications of ROMP
4.31 Ring-Opening Polymerization of cyclic esters: industrial synthesis, properties, applications, and perspectives
4.32 Polymerization Kinetic Modeling and Macromolecular Reaction Engineering
4.33 Mechanistic Aspects of Solid State Polycondensation (SSP)
4.34 Solid state polymerization
4.35 Radical Polymerization at High Pressure
4.36 Electroinitiated polymerization
4.37 Photopolymerization
4.38 Frontal polymerization
4.39 Microwave assisted polymerization
5.01 Introduction and Overview
5.02 Principles of Step-Growth polymerization (Polycondensation and Polyaddition)
5.03 Opportunities in Bio-Based Building Blocks for Polycondensates and Vinyl Polymers
5.04 Sequence Control in One-step polyconden-sation
5.05 Non-stoichiometric Polycondensation
5.06 Chain-Growth Condensation Polymerization
5.07 Oxidative Coupling Polymerization
5.08 Condensation Polymers via Metal-Catalyzed Coupling Reactions
5.09 Advances in Acyclic Diene Metathesis Polymerization
5.10 Enzymatic Polymerization
5.11 Non-linear Polycondensates
5.12 Post-polymerization Modification
5.13 Supramolecular Polymers
5.14 Chemistry and Technology of Step-Growth Polyesters
5.15 Biodegradable Polyesters
5.16 Polycarbonates
5.17 Aromatic Polyethers, Polyetherketones, Polysulfides and Polysulfones
5.18 Chemistry and Technology of polyamides
5.19 "Lyotropic Polydcondensates incl.
Fibers
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5.20 Polyimide
5.21 High-Performance Heterocyclic Polymers
5.22 Polyphenylenes, Polyfluorenes, and Poly(phenylene vinylene)s by Suzuki Polycondensation and Related Methods
5.23 Metal-Containing Polymers
5.24 Phosphorus-containing dendritic architectures
5.25 Epoxy Resins and Phenol-Formaldehyde Resins
5.26 High-Temperature Thermosets
6.01 Introduction | aspects of Macromolecular Architecture and Discrete Nanoobjects
6.02 Topology | Synthesis and Properties of Macrocyclic Polymers
6.03 Polymers with Star-Related Structures: Synthesis, Properties and Applications
6.04 Topology | Dendrimers - Properties and Applications
6.05 Hyperbranched Polymers: Synthetic Methodology, Properties, and Complex Polymer Architectures
6.06 Topology | Molecular brushes
6.07 Topology | Spherical polymer brushes
6.08 Model Networks and Functional Conetworks
6.09 Topology | Microgels
6.10 Composition and Functionality | Controlled endgroup functionalization; including telechelics
6.11 Robust, Efficient and Orthogonal Chemistries for the Synthesis of Functionalized Macromolecules
6.12 Composition and Functionality | Controlled Composition: statistical, gradient, alternating copolymers
6.13 Composition and Functionality | Well defined block copolymers
6.14 Composition and Functionality | Graft copolymers and comb-shaped homopolymers
6.15 Composition and Functionality | Synthetic-Biological Hybrid Polymers: Synthetic designs, properties and applications
6.16 Composition and Functionality | Dynamic, supramolecular polymers (different from linear)
6.17 Shape-controlled Polymers and Nanoobjects | Stereo-controlled chiral polymers
6.18 Shape-controlled Polymers and Nanoobjects | Conformation-dependent design of synthetic functional copolymers
6.19 Shape-controlled Polymers and Nanoobjects | Rigid-flexible and rod-coil copolymers
6.20 Individual nano-objects via hierarchical assembly of polymer building blocks
7.01 Introduction to Volume 7
7.02 Block Copolymers in the Condensed State
7.03 Block Copolymer Thin Films
7.04 Block Copolymers Under Confinement
7.05 Assemblies of Polymer-Based Nanoscopic objects
7.06 Self-Assembly of Inorganic Nanoparticles in Polymer-Like Structures
7.07 Hybrid Polymer-Inorganic Nanostructures
7.08 Peptide-Polymer Conjugates Toward Functional Hybrid Biomaterials
7.09 Layer-by-Layer Assembly of Multifunctional Hybrid Materials and Nanoscale Devices
7.10 Nanostructured Electrospun Fibers
7.11 Soft Lithographic Approaches to Nanofabrication
7.12 Block Copolymer Thin Films on Patterned Substrates
7.13 Nanoimprint Lithography of Polymers
7.14 Modeling Mixtures of Nanorods and Polymers: Determining Structure-Property Relationship for Polymeric Nanocomposites
7.15 Sterically-Stabilized Nanoparticles in Solutions and at Interfaces
7.16 Quasi One-Component Polymer Nanocomposites Based on Particle Brush Assembly
7.17 Electrical Conductivity of Polymer Nanocomposites
7.18 Polymer Dynamics in Constrained Geometries
7.19 Polymer Nanomechanics
8.01 Introduction to Volume 8 - Applications of Polymers
8.02 Top Down Versus Bottom Up Patterning of Polymers
8.03 Photoresists and advanced patterning
8.04 Rapid Prototyping
8.05 Polymer based sensors
8.06 Electroactive Liquid Crystalline Polymers
8.07 Ink-Jet Printing of Functional Polymers for Advanced Applications
8.08 Nanocomposites and hybrid materials
8.09 Polymer photonics
8.10 Polymer based LED and Solar Cells
8.11 Optical Fibers
8.12 Adhesives and sealants
8.13 Polymer membranes
8.14 Polymer additives
8.15 Stimuli responsive polymer systems
8.17 Graphenes
8.18 Functionalized Carbon Nanotubes and Their Enhanced Polymers
9.01 Introduction and Overview
9.02 Life-Like but Not Living: Selection of Synthetically Modified Bioinspired Nucleic Acids for Binding and Catalysis
9.03 Collagen
9.04 Silks
9.05 Elastins
9.06 Resilin in the Engineering of Elastomeric Biomaterials
9.07 Artificial Proteins
9.08 Polysaccharides
9.09 Poly(hydroxyalkanoate)s
9.10 Polymers of the Cytoskeleton
9.11 Mechanical Interactions between Cells and Tissues
9.12 Biological Adhesion
9.13 Viral Packaging of Nucleic Acids
9.14 Making New Materials From Viral Capsids
9.15 Peptoid Oligomers: Peptidomimetics for Diverse Biomedical Applications
9.16 Polymer-Membrane Interactions
9.17 Protein-Polymer Conjugates
9.18 Biomimetic Polymers (for Biomedical Applications)
9.19 Biocompatibility
9.20 Hydrogels
9.21 Polymeric Implants
9.22 Photopolymerizable Systems
9.23 Patterning
9.24 High-Throughput Approaches
9.25 Programming Cells with Synthetic Polymers
9.26 Nucleic Acid Delivery Via Polymer Vehicles
9.27 Polymeric Imaging Agents
9.28 Biodegradation of Polymers
10.01 Introduction to Volume 10: Polymers for a Sustainable Environment and Green Energy
10.02 Green Chemistry and Green Polymer Chemistry
10.03 Lipid-based polymer building blocks & polymers
10.04 Carbohydrate-based polymer building blocks & biopolymers | Mono-, di- and oligosaccharides as precursors for polymer synthesis
10.05 Carbohydrate-based polymer building blocks & biopolymers | Celluloses and polyoses/hemicelluloses
10.06 Carbohydrate-based polymer building blocks & biopolymers | Nanochitins and Nanochitosans, paving the way to eco-friendly and energy-saving exploitation of marine resources
10.07 Carbohydrate-based polymer building blocks and biopolymers |Starch-Based Biopolymers in Paper, Corrugating, and Other Industrial Applications
10.08 Carbohydrate-based polymer building blocks & biopolymers | Guar and guar derivatives
10.09 Carbohydrate-based polymer building blocks & biopolymers | Acacia Gum
10.10 Carbohydrate-based polymer building blocks & biopolymers | Alginates: Properties and Applications
10.11 Carbohydrate-based polymer building blocks & biopolymers |Xanthan
10.12 Polylactic Acid
10.13 Amino acid based polymer-building blocks and proteins as biopolymers | Gelatine
10.14 Amino acid based polymer-building blocks and proteins as biopolymers | Processing Soy Protein Concentrate (SPC) as Plastic in Polymer Blends
10.15 Lignin as building-unit for polymers
10.16 Sustainable use of biomass | Natural fibers
10.17 Sustainable use of biomass | Natural rubbers
10.18 Sustainable use of biomass | Biocomposites: Long natural fiber reinforced biopolymers
10.19 Polymer processing: Environmentally benign & safe | Performance Profile of Biopolymers Compared to Conventional Plastics
10.20 Polymer processing: Environmentally benign & safe - Processing of Plastics into Structural Components
10.21 Polymer processing: Environmentally benign & safe | Processing and Performance Additives for Plastics
10.22 Polymer processing: Environmentally benign & safe |Processing and Performance Additives for Coatings
10.23 Sustainable Manufacturing, Processing and Applications for Polymers and Polymer Systems | Paper
10.24 Sustainable manufacturing, processing and applications for polymers and polymer systems | Polyurethanes
10.25 Sustainable manufacturing, processing and applications for polymers and polymer systems|Polysiloxanes
10.26 Sustainable manufacturing processing and applications for polymers and polymer systems |Lubricant Additives Based on Polyalkylmethacrylates
10.27 Sustainable manufacturing, processing and applications for polymers and polymer systems | Aqueous emulsion polymers
10.28 Sustainable manufacturing processing and applications for polymers and polymer systems |Water-based epoxy systems
10.29 Sustainable manufacturing, processing and applications for polymers and polymer systems | Powder Coatings
10.30 Sustainable Manufacturing, Processing and Applications for Polymers and Polymer systems | Radiation Curing Polymer Systems
10.31 Plastics after use: Sustainable management of material and energy resources
10.32 Polymers in Energy Applications
10.33 Energy Conversion - Fuel Cells | Poly(perfluorosulfonic acid) Membranes
10.34 Energy Conversion - Fuel Cells | Alternative Hydrocarbon membranes by step growth
10.35 Alternative Proton Exchange Membranes by Chain-Growth Polymerization
10.36 Polymers in Membrane Electrode Assemblies
10.37 Energy Conversion - Fuel Cells - Membrane Structure | Morphology of Proton Exchange Membranes
10.38 Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Degradation
10.39 Molecular and Mesoscale Modeling of Proton Exchange Membranes
10.40 Polymers for Thin Film Capacitors: Energy Storage - Li Conducting Polymers
10.41 Aromatic Poly(amides) for Reverse Osmosis
10.42 Sustainable Processes | Electrolyzer Membranes
