Complex Macromolecular Architectures Synthesis, Characterization, and Self-Assembly

by Hadjichristidis, Nikos; Hirao, Akira; Tezuka, Yasuyuki; Du Prez, Filip

• ISBN13: 9780470825136
• ISBN10: 0470825138
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-03-15
• Publisher: Wiley
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Summary

Despite very active research activities in the field of CMA, there lacks a simple-to-read book for researchers and students interested in these new developments.In each chapter, current progress in the area of the synthesis, characterization, and self-assemblies of well-defined complex macromolecular architectures is reviewed by each contributor with relevant emphasis on their research topics. The architectural polymers include 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. Newly developed concepts and procedures, such as "Click" chemistry, chain walking, polyhomologation and ADMET are also highlighted.Furthermore, renowned authors contribute on such special topics 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 is discussed from an industrial point of view. Moreover, 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 included.

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors

Preface

About the Editors

Synthesis

Cyclic and Multicyclic Topological Polymers

Ultrarapid Approaches to Mild Macromolecular Conjugation

Synthesis and Self-Assembly of Hydrogen-Bonded Supramolecular Polymers

Recent Synthetic Developments in Miktoarm Star Polymers with More than Three Different Arms

Precise Synthesis of Dendrimer-Like Star-Branched Polymers, a New Class of Well-Defined Hyperbranched Polymers

Arborescent Polymers with a Mesoscopic Scale

Hyperbranched Glyco-Conjugated Polymers

Highly Branched Functional Polymer Architectures by Click-Chemistry Strategies

Living Alkene Polymerization for Polyolefin Architectures

Precision Polyolefins

Polyhomologation: The Living Polymerization of Ylides

Phenylenevinylene Homopolymers and Block Copolymers via Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization

Block Copolymers Containing Rod Segments

Synthesis of Well-Defined Poly(meth)acrylamides with Varied Stereoregularity by Living Anionic Polymerization

Complex Macromolecular Chimeras

Characterization And Self-Assembly

Self-Assembly and Applications of Polyferrocenylsilane Block Copolymers

Functional Polymeric Nanostructures Prepared by Self-Assembly and Beyond

Morphologies of Block and Star-Branched Polymers with Three Components

Morphologies and Photophysical Properties of Conjugated Rod-Coil Block Copolymers

Bulk Self-Assembly of Linear Hybrid Polypeptide-Based Diblock and Triblock Copolymers

AFM Study of Comb (Co)Polymers with Complex Chain Architecture

Tunable Thermoresponsive Polymers by Molecular Design

Fluorine-Containing Block Copolymers: Synthesis and Application as a Template for Nanocellular and Porous Structures Using Supercritical Carbon Dioxide

Architectural Polymers, Nanostructures, and Hierarchical Structures from Block Copolymers

Block Copolymer Nanostructured Thin Films for Advanced Patterning

Ring Polymers: Effective Isolation and Unique Properties

Acknowledgments

References

Index.

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