Book description
Filling the gap for a book dealing with synthetic strategies and recent
developments, this volume provides a comprehensive and up-to-date
overview of the field of post-polymerization modification.
As such, the international team of expert authors covers a wide range of
topics, including new synthetic techniques utilizing different reactive
groups for post-polymerization modifications of synthetic polymers, as
well as modification of biomimetic and biological polymers. Furthermore,
industrial applications of polymers that are synthesized by
post-polymerization techniques are included.
With its guidelines this is an indispensable reference for the daily lab
work of polymer chemists in both academia and industry researching the
field of polymer synthesis.
Patrick Theato is Associate Professor for polymer chemistry at the
University of Hamburg. He studied chemistry at Mainz (Germany) and
Amherst (USA), and received his Ph. D. in 2001 from the University of
Mainz with Prof. R. Zentel. After postdoctoral research with Prof.
D. Y. Yoon (Seoul National University, Korea) and Prof. C. W.. Frank
(Stanford University, USA), he joined the University of Mainz as a young
faculty member and completed his Habilitation in 2007. From 2009 to 2012
he held a joint appointment with the School of Chemical and Biological
Engineering at Seoul National University within the World Class
University program. In 2011 he accepted a prize senior lectureship at
the University of Sheffield, UK. Shortly after he moved to University of
Hamburg, Germany. He serves as an Editorial Advisory Board Member of
"Macromolecules". His current research interests include the
defined synthesis of reactive polymers, block copolymers, design of
multi stimuli-responsive polymers, versatile functionalization of
interfaces, hybrid polymers, polymers for electronics and templating of polymers.
Harm-Anton Klok is Full Professor at the Institutes of Materials and
Chemical Sciences and Engineering at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de
Lausanne (EPFL) (Switzerland). He received his Ph. D. in 1997 from the
University of Ulm (Germany) after working with Prof. M. Moller. After
postdoctoral research with Prof. D. N. Reinhoudt (University of Twente)
and Prof. S. I. Stupp (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA),
he joined the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research in Mainz
(Germany) in early 1999 as a project leader in the group of Prof. K.
Mullen. In November 2002, he was appointed to the faculty of EPFL.
Harm-Anton Klok is recipient of the 2007Arthur K. Doolittle Award of the
American Chemical Society (ACS) and is Associate Editor of the ACS
journal "Biomacromolecules".
