Silicone Surface Science

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Owen, Michael J. (Editor), Dvornic, Petar R. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
• Series: Advances in Silicon Science, 4
• Subjects: Chemistry.; Polymers.; Materials > Surfaces.; Thin films.; Polymer Sciences.; Surfaces and Interfaces, Thin Films.

Silicone Surface Science offers a survey of the major topics concerning the properties and behavior of silicone surfaces. It covers all main aspects of the subject, including: polydimethylsiloxane, spread monolayers, self-assembled monolayers, hydrophobicity and super-hydrophobicity, coupling agents...

Table of Contents:

• General Introduction to Silicone Surfaces
• Sum Frequency Generation Vibrational Spectroscopy of Silicone Surfaces & Interfaces
• Creating Functional Materials by Chemical and Physical Functionalization of Silicone Elastomer Networks
• Using Surface-Attached Organosilanes to Control and Understand Hydrophobicity and Superhydrophobicity
• Comparison of Surface and Bulk Properties of Pendant and Hybrid Fluorosilicones
• The Design of Non-Wetting Surfaces with FluoroPOSS
• Langmuir Monolayers of Siloxanes and Silsesquioxanes
• On the Interactions of Proteins with Silicon-Based Materials
• Silicone Surfactants
• Silanes and Siloxanes as Coupling Agents to Glass: A Perspective
• Oxidative Surface Treatment of Silicone Rubber
• Surface Analysis of Silicones
• Surface Applications of Silicones.