John Wiley & Sons Inc Responsive Materials and Methods: State-of-the-Art Stimuli-Responsive Materials and Their Applications (Advanced Material Series)

The development of finely-tuned materials that adjust in a predictable manner by specific environment change is the recent arena of materials research. It is a newly emerging supra-disciplinary field with huge commercial potential. Stimuli-responsive materials answer by a considerable change in their properties to small changes in their environment. Responsive materials are becoming increasingly more prevalent as scientists learn about the chemistry and triggers that induce conformational changes in materials structures and devise ways to take advantage of and control them. Responsive Materials and Method offers state-of-the-art of the stimuli-responsive materials and their potential applications. This collection brings together novel methodologies and strategies adopted in the research and development of responsive materials and technology. From the Inside Flap A broad and comprehensive look at stimuli-responsive materials, methods, and applications as well as the novel methodologies and strategies adopted in R&D and commercial industryThe development of finely tuned materials that adjust in a predictable manner to specific environmental change is a rapidly growing multidisciplinary area of materials research with huge commercial potential. Stimuli-responsive materials adjust to small changes in their environment with a considerable change in their properties. Responsive materials are becoming increasingly more prevalent as scientists learn about their chemistry and the triggers that induce conformational change in material structures and devise ways of taking advantage of and controlling them. Responsive Materials and Methods offers a set of state-of-the-art chapters by renowned international researchers on these stimuli-responsive materials and their potential applications.This groundbreaking first volume in a new series on advanced materials tackles such subjects as:Smart wearable systemsThermo-responsive smart biomaterialsConducting polymer nanofibersCyclodextrin-based advanced responsive materialsThermoplastic catalyst systemsSmart functional nanomaterialsResponsive adjuvants and carriers for antigen deliveryInnovative approaches to responsive nanostructured materials for cancer therapyResponsive redox biopolymersSmart nanomaterial applications to space and energyReadershipThe reference volume will be invaluable to a wide range of scientists, researchers, and clinicians including chemists, physicists, biotechnologists, materials scientists, pharmacists, and biomedical engineers, as well as industrial sectors involved in the production of advanced functional materials. From the Back Cover A broad and comprehensive look at stimuli-responsive materials, methods, and applications as well as the novel methodologies and strategies adopted in R&D and commercial industryThe development of finely tuned materials that adjust in a predictable manner to specific environmental change is a rapidly growing multidisciplinary area of materials research with huge commercial potential. Stimuli-responsive materials adjust to small changes in their environment with a considerable change in their properties. Responsive materials are becoming increasingly more prevalent as scientists learn about their chemistry and the triggers that induce conformational change in material structures and devise ways of taking advantage of and controlling them. Responsive Materials and Methods offers a set of state-of-the-art chapters by renowned international researchers on these stimuli-responsive materials and their potential applications.This groundbreaking first volume in a new series on advanced materials tackles such subjects as:Smart wearable systemsThermo-responsive smart biomaterialsConducting polymer nanofibersCyclodextrin-based advanced responsive materialsThermoplastic catalyst systemsSmart functional nanomaterialsResponsive adjuvants and carriers for antigen deliveryInnovative approaches to responsive n