Responsive materials and methods : state-of-the-art stimuli-responsive materials and their applications /

• Other Authors: Tiwari, Ashutosh (Editor), Kobayashi, Hisayoshi (Editor)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Hoboken, New Jersey : Scrivener Publishing : John Wiley & Sons, Inc, [2014]
• Series: Advance materials series.
• Subjects: Smart materials.; Polymers.; Nanostructured materials.; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Material Science.; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Engineering (General); TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Reference.; Polymerer.; Electronic books.

"The development of finely-tuned materials that adjust in a predictable manner by specific environment change is the recent arena of materials research. It is a newly emerging supra-disciplinary field with huge commercial potential. Stimuli-responsive materials answer by a considerable change i...

Table of Contents:

• Part 1. Stimuli-responsive polymeric materials
• part 2. Smart nano-engineered materials
• part 3. Smart biosystems engineering
• part 4. Theory and modeling.