Anionic polymerization

Autore: Hadjichristidis N. Hirao A. Casa Editrice: Springer  Anno Edizione: 2014 Edizione: 1 ISBN: 9784431541851 Pagine: 1000 Costo: 414,96 Euro (*) Materia: Chimica dei Polimeri Chimica Fisica e Fisica Chimica Nanoscienza e nanotecnologia Testi stranieri Lingua: Inglese

Focuses and expands on a specific area of polymers Covers a wide range of topics on anionic polymerization from basic principles to experimental techniques important for practice Topics include recent advances in synthesis, polymerization, architectural polymers, morphology, nano-ordered supra-molecules and molecular assemblies, and potential application in the fields of nanoscience and technology This book presents these important facts: a) The mechanism of anionic polymerization, a more than 50-year challenge in polymer chemistry, has now become better understood; b) Precise synthesis of many polymers with novel architectures (triblock, multi-block, graft, exact graft, comb, cyclic, many armed stars with multi-components, dendrimer-like hyper-branched, and their structural mixed (co)polymers, etc.) have been advanced significantly; c) Based on such polymers, new morphological and self-organizing nano-objects and supramolecular assemblies have been created and widely studied and are considered nanodevices in the fields of nanoscience and technology; d) New high-tech and industrial applications for polymeric materials synthesized by anionic polymerization have been proposed. These remarkable developments have taken place in the last 15 years. Anionic polymerization continues to be the only truly living polymerization system (100 % termination free under appropriate conditions) and consequently the only one with unique capabilities in the synthesis of well-defined (i.e., precisely controlled molecular weight, nearly mono-disperse molecular weight distribution, structural and compositional homogeneity) complex macromolecular architectures. This book, with contributions from the world’s leading specialists, will be useful for all researchers, including students, working in universities , in research organizations, and in industry.