Polymer Mechanochemistry

Book Overview

Responsive Polymers as Sensors, Muscles, and Self-Healing Materials.- Mechanocatalysis.- Theoretical approaches for understanding the interplay between stress and chemical reactivity.- Mechanochemistry in polymers with supramolecular mechanophores.- Macromolecular engines by AFM.- Molecular Mechanochemistry.- Mechanical properties and failure of biopolymers: Atomistic reactions to macroscale response.- Mechanochemistry of topologically complex polymer systems.- Understanding the directionality of molecular machines: The importance of microscopic reversibility.- Supramolecular Chemistry and Mechanochemistry of Macromolecules at the Single Chain Level - An Approach by Single-molecule Force Spectroscopy.- The interplay of mechanochemistry and sonochemistry.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319363220
• ISBN13: 9783319363226
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 429 Pages
• Weight: 1.37 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"