Soft Fibrillar Materials : Fabrication and Applications.

Soft Fibrillar Materials : Fabrication and Applications.

The book covers the most important soft functional materials, including small molecule physical gels, polymer gels, and functional fibers, with respect both to the fundamentals and to development and engineering methods. It provides the reader with the necessary knowledge regarding the chemical and...

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Main Author: Li, Jing Liang
Other Authors: Liu, X. Y. (Xiang Yang)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Hoboken : Wiley, 2013.
Edition:2nd ed.
Subjects:
Fibers.
Soft condensed matter.
fiber.
Fibers
Soft condensed matter
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Table of Contents:
  • Soft Fibrillar Materials; Contents; Preface; List of Contributors; Section I Small Molecule Gels; 1 Molecular Gels and their Fibrillar Networks; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Advances and Perspectives for Design of Gelators; 1.2.1 Analyses of Structure Packing via X-Ray, Synchrotron, and Other Techniques, Including Spectroscopic Tools; 1.2.2 Chirality as a Tool
  • Comparisons between Optically Pure and Racemic Gelators and Optically Pure and Racemic Liquids; 1.2.3 Liquids and their Influence on Gelator Networks; 1.3 Stimulation of Gelation by Perturbations Other Than Temperature.
  • 1.3.1 Enzymatic In situ Formation of Gelators and Gels-Potential Biological Applications1.3.2 Ultrasound
  • Conformational and Aggregation/De-Aggregation Effects; 1.3.3 Radiation-Induced Gelation and Degelation; 1.4 Kinetic Models for Following One-Dimensional Growth and Gelation; 1.5 Advances and Perspectives for a Priori Design of Gelators; 1.6 Some Final Thoughts; Acknowledgments; References; 2 Engineering of Small-Molecule Gels Based on the Thermodynamics and Kinetics of Fiber Formation; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Fiber Networks of SMGs.
  • 2.2.1 Nucleation and Growth Mechanism of Fiber Network Formation2.2.2 Single and Multi-Domain Fiber Networks; 2.2.3 Fiber Branching; 2.2.4 Structural Characteristics of Fiber Networks; 2.3 Crystallization of Nanofibers; 2.3.1 Thermodynamic Driving Force; 2.3.2 Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Nucleation; 2.3.3 Crystallographic Mismatch Nucleation Induced Fiber Branching; 2.3.3.1 Fiber Tip Branching; 2.3.3.2 Fiber Side Branching; 2.3.4 Growth and Branching Kinetics of Nanofibers; 2.4 Strategies for Engineering the Micro/Nano Structure of Fiber Networks.
  • 2.4.1 Engineering of ""Single"" Fiber Networks2.4.1.1 Effects of Supersaturation/Super Cooling on Fiber Branching; 2.4.1.2 Additive-Mediated Fiber Branching; 2.4.2 Engineering of Multi-Domain Fiber Networks; 2.4.2.1 Manipulating Fiber Network by Controlling Primary Nucleation; 2.4.2.2 Switching between Multi-Domain Fiber Networks and Interconnecting Fiber Networks; 2.4.2.3 Kinetically Controlled Homogenization of Fiber Networks; 2.4.2.4 Engineering Multi-Domain Fiber Networks by Volume Confinement; 2.5 Engineering the Macroscopic Properties of Gels by Design of Fiber Networks.
  • 2.5.1 Improving the Elasticity of a Material by Controlling the Primary Nucleation of the Gelator2.5.2 Improving the Elasticity of a Material by Enhancing Fiber Branching; 2.5.3 Improving the Elasticity of a Material by Converting its Multi-Domain Network into an Interconnecting (""Single"") Fiber Network; 2.6 Conclusions; References; 3 Applications of Small-Molecule Gels
  • Drug Delivery; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Hydrogels in Pharmaceutical Applications; 3.2.1 Drug Carriers; 3.2.2 Drug-Derivatized Small-Molecular Hydrogelators; 3.2.3 Drug-Gelator Conjugates.

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