How Smart are the Polymers?

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Laura Peponi (Editor)
Instituto de Ciencia y Tecnología de Polímeros, ICTP-CSIC, Madrid, Spain

Jean-Marie Raquez (Editor)
University of Mons, Mons, Belgium

Series: Polymer Science and Technology
BISAC: SCI013010

Smart polymer materials represent an exciting range of novel materials for advanced applications such as aeronautics and biomedical devices. These materials are able to sustain any external stimuli including temperature, pH, electric and magnetic fields and response in an adaptive and proportional manner to this environmental change. Two main categories of smart materials are able to encompass these features, i.e., self-evolving materials and self-healing materials. Self-evolving materials can, for instance, reconfigure themselves on-the-fly to react upon changing environmental conditions. A variety of possible material candidates can be described as self-evolving materials including shape-memory polymers, adaptive hydrogels and actuators changing their properties in response to external stimulation.

This book proposes a comprehensive knowledge on smart materials that encompass self-evolving materials and self-healing materials, including their implementation of 3D-printing technology. Combining smart materials and additive manufacturing has thereby been introduced as an inspiring way to provide more complex 3D objects with elevated adaptive properties. They are myriad issues that are still challenging with the construction of these smart materials, including their additive manufacturing, but the book will offer novel opportunities to obtain multi-responsive materials in advanced technology.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Preface

Challenges and Perspectives in Smart Polymer Materials
(Jean-Marie Raquez and Laura Peponi)

Chapter 1. Stimuli-Responsive Polymeric Materials with Shape Memory Ability
(Valentina Sessini, Jean-Marie Raquez, Philippe Dubois, José M. Kenny and Laura Peponi, Dipartimento di Ingegneria Civile e Ambientale, University of Perugia, Terni, Italy, and others)

Chapter 2. Thermally-Activated Shape Memory Behavior of Different Nanocomposites Based on Ethylene Copolymers
(Valentina Sessini, David Brox, Antonio Julio López, Alejandro Ureña, Jean-Marie Raquez, Philippe Dubois, José M. Kenny and Laura Peponi, Instituto de Ciencia y Tecnología de Polímeros, ICTP-CSIC, Spain, and others)

Chapter 3. Shape-Memory Nanocomposites for Multi-Responsive Polymer Materials
(Antoniya Toncheva, Florence Pilate, Philippe Dubois and Jean-Marie Raquez, Laboratory of Polymeric and Composite Materials, Center of Innovation and Research in Materials and Polymers, University of Mons, Mons, Belgium, and others)

Chapter 4. Intrinsically Healable Polymers
(Robert H. Aguirresarobe, Sil Nevejans, Nicholas Ballard, June Aizpurua, Lourdes Irusta and Haritz Sardon, POLYMAT, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, Joxe Mari Korta Center, Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain, and others)

Chapter 5. Intrinsic Self-Healing Elastomers Based on Covalent Bonding
(Marianella Hernández, Raquel Verdejo and Miguel Angel López-Manchado, Institute of Polymer Science and Technology (ICTP-CSIC), Madrid, Spain)

Chapter 6. Healing Ability of Ionomeric Polymers under Low-Energy Transfer Damages
(Antonio Julio López, Jorge Teno, Alejandro Ureña and Joaquin Rams, Dept. de Matemática Aplicada, Ciencia e Ingeniería de Materiales y Tecnología Electrónica, ESCET, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, Spain)

Chapter 7. Photo-Responsive Polymers Based on Coumarin
(Cástor Salgado Soneira, Laura Peponi, Marina P. Arrieta, Marina P. Arrieta, Daniel López and Marta Fernández-García, Group of Macromolecular Engineering. Institute of Polymer Science and Technology (ICTP), Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), Madrid, Spain)

Chapter 8. Thermo-Responsive Polymer Dispersed Liquid Crystals Based on Block Copolymers
(Sheyla Carrasco-Hernandez, Joseba Gomez-Hermoso de Mendozaa Junkal Gutierrez, Agnieszka Tercjak, Group `Materials + Technologies´ (GMT), Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Gipuzkoa, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain, and others)

Chapter 9. Frontal Polymerization for Smart Hydrogels
(Ivan Navarro Baena, Valeria Alzari and Laura Peponi, Instituto de Ciencia y Tecnología de Polímeros, ICTP-CSIC, Madrid, Spain, and others)

Chapter 10. Tuning Polymer Thermosensitivity in Aqueous Media for Biomedical Applications
(Maria Eugenia Pérez-Ojeda, Enrique Martínez-Camposc, Carlos Elviraa, Alberto Gallardo, Institute of Polymer Science and Technology ICTP-CSIC, Madrid, Spain, and others)

Chapter 11. Smart Antimicrobial Surfaces
(Alexandra Muñoz-Bonilla and Marta Fernández-García, Instituto de Ciencia y Tecnología de Polímeros (ICTP-CSIC), Madrid, Spain)

Chapter 12. Polymers for Smart Packaging Solutions
(Marco Monti and Marta Zaccone, Proplast, Strada Comunale Savonesa, Rivalta Scrivia (AL), Italy)

Chapter 13. Smart Coatings: Development of Antioxidant Edible Films Based on Sodium Caseinate and Hydroxytyrosol
(Marina Patricia Arrieta and Mercedes Ana Peltzer, Institute of Polymer Science and Technology (ICTP-CSIC), Madrid, Spain, and others)

Chapter 14. Is Your Polymer Smart Enough? Better Make a Hybrid!
(Daniela Anahi Sánchez-Téllez, Lucia Téllez-Jurado, Luis Maria Rodríguez-Lorenzo, Instituto Politécnico Nacional-ESIQIE, Dept. Ing. en Metalurgia y Materiales, UPALM-Zacatenco, Mexico City, Mexico, and others)

Chapter 15. Polymers for Additive Manufacturing
(Thibault Ghigonetto, Carmen M. González-Henríquez, Mauricio A. Sarabia-Vallejos and Juan Rodriguez-Hernandez, Instituto de Ciencia y Tecnología de Polímeros (ICTP), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC). Chemistry and Properties of Polymeric Materials Department, Madrid, Spain, and others)

Chapter 16. From 3D to 4D-Printing: On the Road to Smart 3D-Printed Polymer Devices
(Jérémy Odenta, Antoniya Toncheva, Philippe Dubois and Jean-Marie Raquez, Laboratory of Polymeric and Composite Materials, Center of Innovation and Research in Materials and Polymers, University of Mons, Mons, Belgium, and others)

Index

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