Non-Conventional Functional Block Copolymers

Content: 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