Springerbriefs in Materials

Introduction 1. Synthesis of surface active monomers 1.1. Basic concept of surfmers 1.2. Synthesis of maleic surfmers 1.3. Synthesis of surface active monomers containing maleimide fragment 1.4. Syntheis of (meth)acrylate surface active monomers 1.5. Synthesis of surface active monomers containing styrene polymerizable fragment References 2 Colloidal properties of surface active monomers 2.1. Colloidal properties of surfactants 2.2. Fundamentals of colloidal chemistry of surface active monomers 2.3. Properties and polymerization of micelles, vesicles, mesophases or lyotropic liquid crystals, and microemulsions 2.3.1. Micelles 2.3.2. Vesicles and bilayers 2.3.3. Lyotropic liquid crystals 2.3.4. Microemulsions References 3 Polymerization behavior of surface active monomers 3.1. Emulsion polymeizatiom 3.2. Polymerization in microemulsion 3.3. Radical polymerization and atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP) 3.4. Reversible addition-fragmentation chain transfer (RAFT) polymerization 3.5. Synthesis of polyelectrolite polymers References 4 Application of surface active monomers and polymers containing links of surface active monomers 4.1. The importance of polymers of biomedical applications 4.2. The application of surfmers for creating materials of biomedical application. A brief review of publications References