Product Description: The ability for a material to change properties in response to external stimuli is an attractive feature for numerous applications and as such stimuli responsive materials are gaining attention across many different fields. This book introduces the concepts of stimuli-responsiveness, including the fundamental materials properties required for design...read more

Product Description: Science of the stimuli-responsive materials, and in particular polymers and coatings will play a key role in the developments of future technologies and new knowledge in this field. The book provides the highlights for newcomes as well as a comprehensive review for experienced practitioners of recent advances to stimuli-responsive polymeric films and coatings...read more

Product Description: Fourteen papers cover three areas of film formation: Aspects of film formation mechanism, film property development in thermoplastic and crosslinkable systems, and the morphology and film structure of the resulting films. Advanced instrumental measurements are used to define morphology and determine unique film structures as well as to provide input into models of the film formation process...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Examines the mechanisms involved in the film formation process in waterborne coatings. Discusses the use of fluorescence decay, spectroscopy, neutron scattering, infrared spectroscopy, dielectric spectroscopy, and other instrumental methods to study the film formation process...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Combines theoretical fundamentals with practical applications of attenuated total reflectance to the analysis of polymers and polymeric materials. Provides a comprehensive quantitative novel approach to the analysis and interpretation of attenuated total reflectance...read more

Product Description: Focuses on advances in three areas of multidimensional spectroscopy: NMR, vibrational, and fluorescence. Discusses important areas in polymer analysis, including diffusion, free volume, adhesion, absorption, polymer interactions, and miscibility...read more

Product Description: Presents an overview of the recent developments in the use of hyphenated multidimensional separation and detection techniques for the characterization of polymeric materials. Reports on successful multidimensional chromatographic methods and multiple detector systems...read more

Product Description: Covers significant advances in hyphenated techniques in polymer characterization. Presents coupled thermal techniques and couple-thermal-spectroscopic techniques, including STA-MS, STA-FTIR, TG/IR, GC/IR, TGA/IR, TB/FTIR, DSC/FTIR, and TGA/FTIR.

Product Description: Explores relationships between spectroscopic findings and physical properties of polymers. Thirty-five chapters are divided into six sections covering fundamental concepts in FT-IR, FT-Raman, fluorescence spectroscopy and FT-Mass Spectrometry of polymers; crystalline polymers and copolymers; surfaces and interfaces of polymers; spectroscopic approaches to polymers in solutions and polymer networks; spectroscopy combined with thermally induced processes in polymers; and polymer analysis and surface modifications using non-conventional energy sources...read more

Product Description: Bridges the gap between basic principles of vibrational spectroscopy covering its practical aspects. Emphasizes structure-property relations on surfaces and interfaces. Normal vibrations, adsorption of hydrocarbons or metals and metal oxides, polymers on surfaces, techniques, banding, new materials, adhesion and surfaces of catalysts are among the subjects discussed...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)