Non-Conventional Functional Block Copolymers
ACS Symposium Series, Vol. 1066

This Symposium Series book presents new ideas and concepts in block copolymer science. It addresses recent developments in the area of synthesis, characterization and application of block copolymers that are of a non-conventional nature, as well as novel non-conventional functional block copolymers in all its potential application areas, ranging from bio-sciences to materials sciences. The book provides a full overview on state-of-the-art applications of block copolymers. It provides an excellent snapshot of the exciting research that is going on in the "old" field of block copolymers and that although the basic phase behavior of such systems is well-understood, many more stimulating and exciting aspects of this class of materials has not yet been explored.

Preface. 1. Tuning the Mechanical Properties of Side Chain Crystallizable Block Copolymers. Dominique M. M. Freckmann, Anthony (Tony) Idem, and Mark W. Ellsworth. 2. Design, Synthesis and Assembly of Self-Immolative Linear Block Copolymers. Matthew A. DeWit, Ali Nazemi, Solmaz Karamdoust, Annelise Beaton, and Elizabeth R. Gillies. 3. Orthogonally Reactive Diblock Copolymers Utilizing Alkyne and Isothiocyanate Groups. Peter J. Roth and Patrick Theato. 4. Exploiting Architecture and Composition of Side-Chain Liquid Crystalline Polymers for Shape Memory Applications. S.-k. Ahn, P. Deshmukh, and R. M. Kasi. 5. Nonconventional Elements in Block Copolymers. E. Bryan Coughlin and Yoan Simon. 6. Synthesis and Characterization of Helix-Coil Block Copoly(?-peptoid)s. Li Guo and Donghui Zhang. 7. Block Copolymer Synthesis through the Use of Switchable RAFT Agents. Graeme Moad, Massimo Benaglia, Ming Chen, John Chiefari, Yen K. Chong, Daniel J. Keddie, Ezio Rizzardo, and San H. Thang. 8. Asymmetric Micellization of Oragnometallic Polyether Block Copolymers. Christine Mangold, Frederik Wurm, and Andreas F. M. Kilbinger. 9. Stimuli Responsive Triblock Copolymers - Synthesis, Characterization, and Application. John Texter, Vivek Arjunan Vasantha, Kejian Bian, Xiumin Ma, Lisa Slater, Thomas Mourey, and Gary Slater. Editors' Biographies. Author Index. Subject Index.

Patrick Theato is Professor at the Institut fur Technische und Makromolekulare Chemie, Universitat Hamburg. Andreas Kilbinger is Professor in the Department of Chemistry, University of Fribourg. E. Bryan Coughlin is Professor in the Polymer Science and Engineering Department, University of Massachusetts Amherst.