Actively Moving Polymers
Shape-Memory and Shape-Changing Effects
Book
Hardback
300 pages
978-1-84973-554-4 (ISBN)
Description
In recent years there has been a surge of interest in actively moving polymers, materials which can change shape in response to specific stimuli, as they can be used in well-known technologies such as packaging materials, but also as smart textiles and promising biomedical applications such as artificial muscles. To date, there is currently no resource covering the full array of these interesting materials. Actively Moving Polymers will cover both shape-memory polymers (materials which can be deformed into a new temporary shape and recover their original shape) and shape-changing polymers (materials which change their shape as long as they are exposed to a stimulus, such as expansion or shrinking). The book explores both the fundamental mechanisms and applications of different systems including dual-shape polymers, shape-memory composites, water-triggered shape changes, thermally-induced shape-changing polymers and self-oscillating gels. Readers will gain a comprehensive overview of actively moving polymers from leading scientists in the field and through example applications inspiration for new product ideas. This book provides everything you need to know about actively moving polymers in one place.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Illustrations
Not illustrated
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-84973-554-4 (9781849735544)
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Persons
Andreas Lendlein is Director of the Institute of Polymer Research at Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht in Teltow, Germany, and serves on the Board of Directors of the Berlin-Brandenburg Centre for Regenerative Therapies, Berlin. He is Professor for Materials in Life Sciences at University of Potsdam and Professor in Chemistry at the Freie Universitot of Berlin as well as a member of the medical faculty of CharitU University Medicine Berlin. His research interests include polymer-based biomaterials with special emphasis given to multifunctional materials, stimuli-sensitive polymers and biomimetic polymers. He has received more than 20 awards for his scientific work and entrepreneurship including the BioFUTURE Award in 1998, the 2000 Hermann-Schnell Award and the World Technology Network Award in the category Health & Medicine in 2005. He has published more than 200 papers in journals and books, and is an inventor on more than 260 published patents and patent applications of 52 patent families. Marc Behl received his doctor's degree from Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz and is currently head of the Active Polymers Department at the Center for Biomaterial Development in the Institute of Polymer Research of the Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht. Furthermore, he is project leader of the Tianjin University - Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht Joint Laboratory for Biomaterial Development. His primary research interests are design, synthesis and characterization of materials capable of active movement with a focus on shape-memory polymers. He has published more than 40 papers in journals and books.
Content
Introduction; Section 1: Shape-memory polymers; Dual-shape Polymers; Shape-memory Composites; Water-triggered Shape Changes; Section 2: Shape-changing polymers; Thermally-induced shape-changing polymers - liquid crystalline elastomers; Self-oscillating Gels;