Responsive Polymer Materials demonstrates how responsive polymers engineered to alter structure and properties in response to environmental inputs can be modified to create and improve their applicational properties and, as such, the systems and devices in which they are deployed.

Contents

1. Stimuli-Responsive Brushlike Macromoleculas
2. Design of Responsive Water-Soluble Block Copolymers
3. Azobenzene-Containing Photoswitchable Polymeric Langmuir-Blodgett-Kihn Multilayer Films
4. Stimuli-Responsive Semifluorinated Polymer Brushes
5. Nanopatterning of Stimulus-Responsive Polymer Brushes by Scanning Probe and Electron Beam Lithography
6. Responsive "Unary" Polymer Brushes with Active Anchoring Layer
7. Mechanism of Phase Segregation in Binary Polymer Brushes: Three-Dimensional Experimental Analysis of Inner Structure
8. Controlling Selective Adsorption on Patterned Gradient Y-Shaped Amphiphilic Brushes
9. Responsive Polymers in Microfluidic Devices
10. Nonspherical Colloidal Particles and Their Stimuli-Responsive Film Formation
11. Responsive Siloxane-Based Polymeric Surfaces
12. Nanostructured Composites Based on Polymer Gels
13. Stimuli-Responsive Polyelectrolyte Microcapsules
14. Gold Nanoparticle Enhanced Transmission Surface Plasmon Resonance Spectroscopy

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