Chemomechanical Instabilities in Responsive Materials

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Borckmans, P. (Editor), Kepper, P. De (Editor), Khokhlov, A. R. (Editor), Métens, S. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2009.
• Series: NATO Science for Peace and Security Series A: Chemistry and Biology,
• Subjects: Physics.; Physical chemistry.; Polymers.; Dynamics.; Ergodic theory.; Continuum physics.; Condensed matter.; Condensed Matter Physics.; Physical Chemistry.; Dynamical Systems and Ergodic Theory.; Classical Continuum Physics.; Polymer Sciences.

The present volume includes most of the material of the invited lectures delivered at the NATO Advanced Study Institute “Morphogenesis through the interplay of nonlinear chemical instabilities and elastic active media” held from 2th to 14th July 2007 at the Institut d’Etudes Scientifiques de Cargèse...

Table of Contents:

• From Sustained Oscillations to Stationary Reaction-Diffusion Patterns
• Mechanochemical Instabilities in Active Gels
• An Excursion in Theoretical Non Linear Chemistry: From Oscillations to Turing Patterns
• Chemomechanics: Oscillatory Dynamics in Chemoresponsive Gels
• Structural Approaches on the Toughness in Double Network Hydrogels
• Chemomechanical Dynamics of Responsive Gels
• Autonomous Rhythmic Drug Delivery Systems Based on Chemical and Biochemomechanical Oscillators
• Structure Formation and Nonlinear Dynamics in Polyelectrolyte Responsive Gels
• Nonlinear Chemical Dynamics In Synthetic Polymer Systems
• Internal Stress as a Link Between Macroscale and Mesoscale Mechanics
• On Some Passive and Active Motion in Biology.