Intelligent Materials. (2007)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Mohsen Shahinpoor, Hans-Jorg Schneider ; Contributions by R Metzger [and others].
• Other Names: Professor, Shahinpoor, Mohsen; Professor, Schneider, Hans-Jorg; Professor, Metzger, R; Professor, Sauvage, Jean-Pierre; Professor, Stoddart, J. Fraser; Professor, Kim, Kwang J; Professor, Hirai, Toshihiro; Professor, Asanuma, Hiroshi; Professor, Barrett, Christopher; Dr, Lendlein, Andrea; Professor, Langer, Robert S; Professor, Otero, Toribio Fernandez; Dr, Bergamini, Giacomo; Dr, Ceroni, Paola
• Contents: Foreword: Preface -- Introduction -- 1-Chemically Driven Artificial Molecular Machines -- 2-Photochemically Controlled Molecular Devices and Machines -- 3-Tansition Metal Complex-Based Molecular Machines -- 4-Chemomechanical Polymers -- 5-Ionic Polymer Metal Nano-Composites as Intelligent Materials and Artificial Muscles -- 6-Artificial Muscles, Sensing and Multifunctionality from the Electrochemical Properties of Conductive Polymers -- 7-Electrochemically-Controllable Polyacrylonitrile Artificial Muscle as an Intelligent Material -- 8-Unimolecular Electronic Devices -- 9-Piezoelectric Ceramics as Intelligent Multi-Functional Materials -- 10-Ferroelectric Relaxor Polymers As Intelligent Soft Actuators and Artificial Muscles -- 11-Magnetic Polymeric Gels As Intelligent Artificial Muscles -- 12-Intelligent Materials: Shape-Memory Polymers -- 13-Shape Memory Alloys as Multi-Functional Materials -- 14-Magnetorheological Materials And Their Applications: A Review -- 15-Metal Hydrides as Intelligent Materials and Artificial Muscles -- 16-Dielectric Elastomer Actuators as Intelligent Materials for Actuation, Sensing and Generation -- 17-Azobenzene Polymers as Photo-Mechanical and Multifunctional Smart Materials -- 18-Intelligent Chitosan-based Hydrogels as Multifunctional Materials -- 19-Polymer-Protein Complexation and its Application as ATP-Driven Gel Machine -- 20-Intelligent Composite Materials Having Capabilities of Sensing, Health Monitoring, Actuation, Self-Repair and Multifunctionality" -- 21-Overview of Liquid Crystal Elastomers, Magnetic Shape Memory Materials, Fullerenes, Carbon Nanotubes, Non-Ionic Smart Polymers and Electrorheological Fluids as Intelligent and Multi-Functional Materials -- 22-Biogenic and Bioinspired Intelligent Materials -from DNA-based Devices to Biochips and Drug Delivery Systems.
• Publisher Details: Cambridge : Royal Society of Chemistry
• Publication Date: 2007
• Extent: 1 online resource (552 pages), 254 black and white, illustrations
• Subjects: 620.11 620.112; SCIENCE / Chemistry / General; Chemistry; Materials science; Chemistry; Technology: general issues; Technology; Chemistry; Chemistry; Technology: general issues; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781847558008; 1847558003
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