Overview
- There is an increasing interest in materials based on silicon chemistry that cover several domains : (1) polymer chemistry and physics (2) sol-gel chemistry (3) and a large variety of applications
- Developments are continuing at a fast rate, presentation of the results is absolutely necessary
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Silicon Based Polymers presents highlights in advanced research and technological innovations using macromolecular organosilicon compounds and systems, as presented in the 2007 ISPO congress. Silicon-containing materials and polymers are used all over the world and in a variety of industries, domestic products and high technology applications.
Among them, silicones are certainly the most well–known, however there are still new properties discovered and preparative processes developed all the time, therefore adding to their potential. Less known, but in preparation for the future, are other silicon containing-polymers which are now close to maturity and in fact some are already available like polysilsesquioxanes and polysilanes.
All these silicon based materials can adopt very different structures like chains, dendrimers, hyperbranched and networks, physical and chemical gels. The result is a vast array of materials with applications in various areas such as optics, electronics, ionic electrolytes, liquid crystals, biomaterials, ceramics and concrete, paints and coatings … all needed to face the environmental, energetical and technological issues of today. Some industrial aspects of the applications of these materials will also be presented.
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Table of contents (18 papers)
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Functional Polysiloxanes
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Functional Polysilsesquioxanes
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Silicon Based Polymers
Book Subtitle: Advances in Synthesis and Supramolecular Organization
Editors: François Ganachaud, Sylvie Boileau, Bruno Boury
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8528-4
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Chemistry and Materials Science, Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2008
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-8527-7Published: 09 September 2008
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-7902-2Published: 10 November 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-8528-4Published: 09 August 2008
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 285
Number of Illustrations: 70 b/w illustrations
Topics: Polymer Sciences, Inorganic Chemistry, Organic Chemistry, Materials Science, general, Characterization and Evaluation of Materials, Nanotechnology