Smart Inorganic Polymers

Synthesis, Properties, and Emerging Applications in Materials and Life Sciences

Evamarie Hey-Hawkins, Muriel Hissler

• Publisher: Wiley-VCH
• Year: 2019
• Print ISBN: 9783527344840
• eBook ISBN: 9783527819133
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Technology & Engineering
• Subtopic: Chemical & Biochemical Engineering
• Index: Technology & Engineering

Provides complete and undiluted knowledge on making inorganic polymers functional.

This comprehensive book reflects the state of the art in the field of inorganic polymers, based on research conducted by a number of internationally leading research groups working in this area. It covers the synthesis aspects of synthetic inorganic polymers and looks at multiple inorganic monomers as building blocks, which exhibit unprecedented electronic, redox, photo-emissive, magnetic, self-healing and catalytic properties. It also looks at the applications of inorganic polymers in areas such as optoelectronics, energy storage, industrial chemistry, and biology.

Beginning with an overview of the use of smart inorganic polymers in daily life, Smart Inorganic Polymers: Synthesis, Properties and Emerging Applications in Materials and Life Sciences goes on to study the synthesis, properties, and applications of polymers incorporating different heteroelements such as boron, phosphorus, silicon, germanium, and tin. The book also examines inorganic polymers in flame-retardants, as functional materials, and in biology.

• An excellent addition to the polymer scientists' and synthetic chemists' toolbox
• Summarizes the state of the art on how to make and use functional inorganic polymers, from synthesis to applications
• Edited by the coordinator of a highly funded European community research program (COST action) that focuses specifically on the exploration of inorganic polymers
• Features contributions from top experts in the field

Aimed at academics and industrial researchers in this field, Smart Inorganic Polymers: Synthesis, Properties and Emerging Applications in Materials and Life Sciences will also benefit scientists who want to get a better overview on the state-of-the-art of this rapidly advancing area.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Table of Contents
• Preface
• 1 Current Status and Future Perspectives of Functional and Smart Materials in Daily Life
• 2 Boron‐Containing Polymers
• 2.1 Group 13–Group 15 Element Bonds Replacing Carbon–Carbon Bonds in Main Group Polyolefin Analogs
• 2.2 Highlighting the Binding Behavior of Icosahedral Boron Clusters Incorporated into Polymers: Synthons, Polymers Preparation, and Relevant Properties
• 3 Synthesis of Group 14 Metal‐Containing Polymers
• 4 Synthesis of Polymers Containing Group 15 Elements
• 5 Synthesis of Inorganic Dendrimers
• 6 Metallo‐Supramolecular Polymers
• 7 Applications of Heteroatom‐Based Oligomers and Polymers in Optoelectronics
• 8 Inorganic Polymers as Flame‐Retardant Materials
• 9 Inorganic Polymers for Potential Medicinal Applications
• 10 Inorganic Dendrimers and Their Applications
• 11 Other Examples of Inorganic Polymers as Functional Materials
• Index
• End User License Agreement