Polymers at Nanoscale

Making polymers into nanoparticles as an essential step in polymer solution processing is of key importance for many applications of polymers. This book seeks to uncover the basics and recent advances in polymer nanoparticles, including polymer synthesis, self-assembly, properties, and applications. It encompasses the various preparation methods of polymer nanoparticles, broadly ranged from single chain collapse to polymerization methods and solution self-assembly. It showcases a wide range of advanced applications of polymer nanoparticles in several fields that include pharmaceutics (drug and nucleotide delivery), biomedicals (bioimaging, diagnosis, and therapeutics), energy (batteries and solar cells) and environmental (catalysis and water purification).

This book is enriched with a comprehensive range of content, incorporating synthesis, properties and applications in polymeric nanoparticles that will serve as a suitable beginner guide and survey book in polymer nanomaterials, as well as a useful tool for graduate students, scientists and practitioners in related fields or industries such as chemistry, materials science and engineering, nanomaterials, energy storage and conversion devices, and biomedicine.

Contents:

• Volume 1: Synthesis, Properties and Self-assembly:

  • Introduction to Nano-scaled Polymers (Jia Wang, Xin Wang and Jie He)
  • Microfluidics to Prepare Polymeric Nanoparticles (Xu Zheng and Guoqing Hu)
  • Synthesis of Single-Chain Nanoparticles (Xianggeng Liu and Erik B Berda)
  • Self-Assembly of Small-Sized and Highly Flexible Polymeric Particles (Daoyong Chen)
  • Poly(3-alkylthiophene) Nanofibers: Preparation, Hybrid Nanostructures and Photovoltaic Applications (Lingyao Meng and Yang Qin)
  • Stimuli-Responsive Crystalline Colloidal Arrays Formed by Polymeric Particles (Xinzhen Fan, Hu Zhang, Xavier Banquy and X X Zhu)
  • Photonic Crystals from Polymeric Nanoparticles (Xiaodong Chen, Lianbin Zhang and Jintao Zhu)
  • Polymer/Protein Hybrid Nanoparticles (Yanhang Hong, Li Liu and Hanying Zhao)
  • Hybrids of Polymers and Plasmonic Metal Nanoparticles: Encapsulation, Surface Grafting and Beyond (Hanyi Duan, Tessa Malesky and Jie He)

• Volume 2: Applications:

  • Polymeric Nanoparticles for Drug Delivery (Pei Huang, Hongzhang Deng, Yongfeng Zhou and Xiaoyuan Chen)
  • Polymeric Nanoparticles for Bioimaging (Tingting Pan and Yanqing Tian)
  • Anisotropic Polymeric Nanoparticles for Biomedical Applications (Yucheng Luo and Qiongyu Guo)
  • Conjugated Polymeric Nanoparticles for Bioimaging and Therapeutics (Huaxin Zhu, Xin Wang and Wenqiang Qiao)
  • Polymeric Nanoparticles as Templates for Mesoporous Materials (Li Ai, Xiaowen Min and Ben Liu)
  • Nanostructured Polymers as Battery Materials for Energy Storage (Chao Luo)
  • Biopolymeric Nanoparticles for Food and Agriculture (Honglin Zhu, Sunni Chen and Yangchao Luo)
  • Chitosan-Derived Biopolymer Nanomaterials for the Removal of Dyes, Heavy Metals, Antibiotics and Pesticides (Guihua Wang, Wentao Dong, Chong Chen, Jikang Li, Ziqi Shi, Sheng Chen and Bin Yan)

Readership: Academic researchers, postgraduate students, undergraduate students, industries/practitioners/clinicians in polymers, nanomaterials and nanostructures.
Key Features:

• Providing summaries of the preparation methods of polymer nanoparticles
• Highlighting polymer nanoparticles in compelling applications