Industrial Applications for Intelligent Polymers and Coatings

Front Matter....Pages i-xxiii
Smart Stimuli-Responsive Nano-sized Hosts for Drug Delivery....Pages 1-26
Stimuli-Responsive Smart Polymeric Coatings: An Overview....Pages 27-49
Electroactive Polymers and Coatings....Pages 51-89
Characterization and Performance of Stress- and Damage-Sensing Smart Coatings....Pages 91-103
Smart Polymer Surfaces....Pages 105-120
Smart Textile Transducers: Design, Techniques, and Applications....Pages 121-146
Smart Polymers: Synthetic Strategies, Supramolecular Morphologies, and Drug Loading....Pages 147-164
Functions of Bioactive and Intelligent Natural Polymers in the Optimization of Drug Delivery....Pages 165-184
Outlook of Aptamer-Based Smart Materials for Industrial Applications....Pages 185-203
Superhydrophobic and Water-Repellent Polymer-Nanoparticle Composite Films....Pages 205-221
Application of Conducting Polymers in Solar Water-Splitting Catalysis....Pages 223-251
Smart Biopolymers in Food Industry....Pages 253-269
Designing Self-Healing Polymers by Atom Transfer Radical Polymerization and Click Chemistry....Pages 271-291
Polyurethane-Based Smart Polymers....Pages 293-312
Piezoelectric PVDF Polymeric Films and Fibers: Polymorphisms, Measurements, and Applications....Pages 313-336
Multifunctional Materials for Biotechnology: Opportunities and Challenges....Pages 337-353
Nanocomposite Polymeric-Based Coatings: From Mathematical Modeling to Experimental Insights for Adapting Microstructure to High-Tech Requirements....Pages 355-371
Polymer-Based Nanocomposite Coatings for Anticorrosion Applications....Pages 373-398
Amphiphilic Invertible Polymers and Their Applications....Pages 399-415
Smart Coatings for Corrosion Protection....Pages 417-435
Smart Textile Supercapacitors Coated with Conducting Polymers for Energy Storage Applications....Pages 437-477
Self-Healing Coatings for Corrosion Protection of Steel....Pages 479-492
Overview of Silane-Based Polymer Coatings and Their Applications....Pages 493-509
Smart Self-Healing Polymer Coatings: Mechanical Damage Repair and Corrosion Prevention....Pages 511-535
Optical Sensor Coating Development for Industrial Applications....Pages 537-552
Sensory Polymers for Detecting Explosives and Chemical Warfare Agents....Pages 553-576
Smart Polymeric-Based Microencapsulation: A Promising Synergic Combination....Pages 577-604
Adhesion of Polymer Coatings: Principles and Evaluation....Pages 605-617
Smart Polymer Nanoparticles for High-Performance Water-Based Coatings....Pages 619-645
Radiation-Curable Smart Coatings....Pages 647-657
New Functional Composite Silane-Zeolite Coatings for Adsorption Heat Pump Applications....Pages 659-679
Intercalation of Poly[oligo(ethylene glycol)-oxalate] into Lithium Hectorite....Pages 681-698
Back Matter....Pages 699-710