Specialty Polymers : Materials and Applications
Contents: Foreword. Preface. Contributors. 1. Liquid crystal conducting polymers/P.J.S. Foot, Gillian J. Lambe and John W. Brown. 2. Polyanilines: materials and applications/Syed Akheel Ahmed and Syed Raihan Taqui. 3. Polymer nanofibers: fabrication, applications and characterization/Lim Chwee Teck, E.P.S. Tan, Y.Z. Zhang and S. Ramakrishna. 4. Magnetic polymer microspheres/Xiaobin Ding and Junhua Zhang. 5. Intrinsically conducting polymers for metallic corrosion protection/Xinli Jing and Yangyong Wang. 6. Inorganic polymers for advanced applications/Hee-Gweon Woo and Bo-Hye Kim. 7. Light weight polymer composite materials for automotive industry/Sapuan Salit. 8. Conducting polymer-based sensors/Johan Bobacka, Tom Lindfors and Ari Ivaska. 9. Photo-converters based on dye-doped polymers/Alexander Ishchenko. 10. Polymers in medicine/Mohammad Ahmad, Ayesha Ahmad and Faiz Mohammad. 11. Luminescent polymers/Yongfang Li and Jianhui Hou. 12. Polymers in electronics/V. Ramgopal Rao and Saurabh Goyal. 13. Ion conducting polymers/Ashok Kumar and D. Saikia. 14. Specially coating and adhesives/Sharif Ahmad and Ufana Riaz. 15. Recombinant polypeptides in therapeutics/Rizwan H. Khan and M.S. Nayeem. 16. Electrically conducting polymer composites/Amir Al-Ahmed and Inamuddin. Index.
"The synthetic counterparts of natural polymeric materials are now finding applications that are light weight, mechanically strong and environmentally stable sheets, fibers, films, adhesives, paints and foams and which have replaced most of the commodity and structural materials. The systematic research on the preparation, characterization and utilization of plastics resulted in newer polymers of much better and often having a set of several desirable properties in a single polymer. These polymers have established their place in engineering applications as well. Although, the bulk of plastic production is of relatively simple commodity polymers, the proportion of specially designed and tailor-made plastics for specific and sophisticated applications is also increasing with great pace. Specialty plastics as well as their use in specific and sophisticated applications are the key to the continued scientific growth and technological advances in the new millennium.
This book thoroughly covers today\'s rapidly growing topics on the specialty polymers and their applications in most sophisticated and specialized areas. It gives up-to-date in-depth knowledge and extremely comprehensive details of the chemistry, physics, material science, technology and device applications of specialty polymers.
This comprehensive book containing 16 state-of art-review chapters is the result of the untiring efforts of 35 highly renowned experts from the national and international scientific community. It is thought provoking to the researchers who are working in the fields of chemistry, biochemistry, biotechnology, medicine, polymer chemistry, semiconductor physics, material science, electrochemistry, biology, electronics, photonics, solid state physics, nanotechnology, electrical and electronics engineering, optical engineering, device engineering, data storage and other related areas."
