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Title

Supramolecular polymers / edited by Alberto Ciferri.

Publication

New York : Dekker/CRC, 2005.

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Additional Authors

Ciferri, A.

Description

xiii, 761 pages; 25 cm

Summary

"Supramolecular Polymers, Second Edition details assembly processes and the structure-function correlation in natural and synthetic self-assembling materials, focusing on developments that have occurred over the past five years."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

• Polymers
• Supramolecular chemistry

Contents

Pt. I. Theory and structure -- Ch. 1. Supramolecular polymer chemistry - scope and perspectives / Jean-Marie Lehn -- Ch. 2. Growth of supramolecular structures / Alberto Ciferri -- Ch. 3. Theory of supramolecular polymerization / Paul van der Schoot -- Ch. 4. Supramolecular liquid crystals : simulation / Reinhard Hentschke, Peter Lenz and Bernd Fodi -- Ch. 5. Supramolecular low-molecular weight complexes and supramolecular side-chain polymers / Takashi Kato -- Ch. 6. Hydrogen-bonded supramolecular polymers : linear and network polymers and self-assembling discotic polymers / Perry S. Corbin and Stephen C. Zimmerman -- Ch. 7. Dendrimeric supramolecular and supramacromolecular assemblies / Donald A. Tomalia -- Ch. 8. Polymers with interwined superstructures and interlocked structures / J. Benjamin Beck and Stuart J. Rowan -- Ch. 9. Theory of block copolymers / Mark D. Whitmore -- Ch. 10. Assemblies in complex block copolymer systems / Volker Abetz -- Ch. 11. Microstructure and crystallization of rigid-coil comblike polymers and block copolymers / Katja Loos and Sebastian Munoz-Guerra -- Pt. II. Properties and functions -- Ch. 12. DNA structures and their applications in nanotechnology / Jun Xu, Thom H. LaBean and Stephen L. Craig -- Ch. 13. Soluble amphiphilic nanostructures and potential applications / Nobuo Kimizuka -- Ch. 14. Supramolecular properties of polymers for plastic electronics / Davide Comoretto -- Ch. 15. Supramolecular polymers in action / Anton W. Bosman and Rint P. Sijbesma -- Ch. 16. Columnar, helical, and tubular supramolecular polymers / Wei Zhang and Colin Nuckolls -- Ch. 17. Crystalline bacterial cell surface layers (S-layers) : a versatile self-assembly system / Uwe B. Sleytr, Margit Sara, Dietmar Pum and Bernhard Schuster -- Ch. 18. Self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) and synthesis of planar micro- and nanostructures / Lin Yan, Wilhelm T. S. Huck and George M. Whitesides -- Ch. 19. Layered polyelectrolyte assemblies / X. Arys, A. M. Jonas, A. Laschewsky, R. Legras and F. Mallwitz -- Ch. 20. Molecular imprinting / Makoto Komiyama -- Ch. 21. Protein polymerization and polymer dynamics approach to functional systems / Fumio Oosawa -- Ch. 22. Force generation by cellular polymers / George Oster and Alex Mogilner.

ISBN

0824723317 (hbk.)

OCLC

• ocm57640769
• SCSB-5192824

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries