Book description
The field of CMA (complex macromolecular architecture) stands at the
cutting edge of materials science, and has been a locus of intense
research activity in recent years. This book gives an extensive
description of the synthesis, characterization, and self-assembly of
recently-developed advanced architectural materials with a number of
potential applications.
The architectural polymers, including bio-conjugated hybrid polymers
with poly(amino acid)s and gluco-polymers, star-branched and
dendrimer-like hyperbranched polymers, cyclic polymers, dendrigraft
polymers, rod-coil and helix-coil block copolymers, are introduced
chapter by chapter in the book. In particular, the book also
emphasizes the topic of synthetic breakthroughs by living/controlled
polymerization since 2000.
Furthermore, renowned authors contribute on special topics such as
helical polyisocyanates, metallopolymers, stereospecific polymers,
hydrogen-bonded supramolecular polymers, conjugated polymers, and
polyrotaxanes, which have attracted considerable interest as novel
polymer materials with potential future applications. In addition,
recent advances in reactive blending achieved with well-defined
end-functionalized polymers are discussed from an industrial point of
view. Topics on polymer-based nanotechnologies, including
self-assembled architectures and suprastructures, nano-structured
materials and devices, nanofabrication, surface nanostructures, and
their AFM imaging analysis of hetero-phased polymers are also included.
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Provides comprehensive coverage of recently developed
advanced architectural materials
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Covers hot new areas such as
o click chemistry o chain
walking o polyhomologation o ADMET
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Edited by highly regarded scientists in the field
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Contains contributions from 26 leading experts from Europe,
North America, and Asia
Researchers in academia and industry specializing in polymer
chemistry will find this book to be an ideal survey of the most recent
advances in the area. The book is also suitable as supplementary
reading for students enrolled in Polymer Synthetic Chemistry, Polymer
Synthesis, Polymer Design, Advanced Polymer Chemistry, Soft Matter
Science, and Materials Science courses.
Color versions of selected figures can be found at www. wiley.
com/go/hadjichristidis
Nikos Hadjichristidis is a Professor of Polymer at
University of Athens, Greece, where he is the Chairman of the
Chemistry Department. He also worked as an adjunct professor at the
Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, the Technical University
of Denmark, Institute of Chemical Engineering of the National Research
Council of Argentina, and the Simon Bolivar University, Venezuela. He
holds considerable honors including the ACS PMSE A. K. Doolittle Award
(2003) and the International Award of the Society of Polymer Science,
Japan (SPSJ, 2007). He is also a very active with the editorial boards
of Polymer journals. He has published more than 340 papers and 23
reviews in referred scientific journals, 4 patents, two books.
Yasuyuki Tezuka is a Professor of Polymer at the Tokyo
Institute of Technology. His research has focused on topological
polymer chemistry, in particular on designing topologically unique
macromolecular architectures by developing the electrostatic
self-assembly and covalent fixation process. He was an associate
editor of Polymer Journal published by The Society of Polymer
Science, Japan from 2002-2006, and has been an Asian Editor of
Reactive and Functional Polymers since 2006. He received a M.
S. from The University of Tokyo in synthetic chemistry and a Ph. D.
from Ghent University (Belgium) in polymers.
Akira Hiraois a Professor of Polymer at the Tokyo Institute of
Technology, where he was the Chairman of Polymeric and Organic
Materials Department four times and Vice-Dean of Chemistry Division,
undergraduate course (2004-2006). He is currently Members of the
Editorial Board of Macromolecules, Polymer Journal,
Macromolecular Research, and European Polymer Journal.
