Smart Polymer Systems 2010

Smart Polymer Systems 2010

Author: Conference Proceedings
ISBN 978-1-84735-494-5 

Published: 2010 


$135.00
Smart Polymer Systems 2010 was iSmithers’ inaugural international conference on stimuli-responsive polymers. These material systems repeatedly dramatically react to small changes in their external environment in a predictable manner.

With an immensely wide range of potential applications; biomembranes, intelligent textiles, tissue engineering and smart coatings to name a few – the same thing that makes these materials so exciting, is also the barrier to their commercialisation. 

The conference highlighted the most recent advances and developments in this rapidly evolving field and provided attendees with a broad and comprehensive outlook on the emerging trends, perspectives, and limitations of the technological applications of various classes of stimuli-responsive polymer materials.

These proceedings cover presentations from an impressive panel of speakers from industry and academia including Unilever, Procter & Gamble, DSM, MIT, Duke, Stanford and Clarkson Universities who showcased the scope of these "smart" materials, their potential applications and how you might capitalise on this emerging technology.

SESSION 1: RESPONSIVE COATINGS
Paper 1 
Stimuli-responsive polyelectrolyte multilayers: from pH and temperature-sensitive
nanotube surface arrays to living cells with functional synthetic backpacks
Dr. Michael Rubner, Department of Materials Science & Engineering, Massachusetts Institute
of Technology, US (Paper unavailable at the time of print)

Paper 2 
Self-repairing polymeric films
Dr. Marek W Urban, School of Polymers & High Performance Materials, University of
Southern Mississippi, US (Paper unavailable at time of print)

Paper 3 
Interactive polymer substrates via polymer grafting
Dr. Igor Luzinov, School of Materials Science & Engineering, Clemson University, US
Paper 4 Hybrid materials for application in anti-reflective coatings
Dr. Pascal Buskens, N Arfsten, R Habets, H Langermans, A Overbeek, B Plum, R de Rijk & J
Scheerder, DSM Research, The Netherlands

SESSION 2: SMART TEXTILES
Paper 5 
Preparation and application of responsive coatings prepared on textile fibers
Prof Jan Genzer & Kiran K Goli, North Carolina State University, US
(Paper unavailable at time of print)

Paper 6 
Responsive coating design on substrates/ particles
Dr Maxim Orlov, D Salloum, R Sheparovych, V Gartstein & F Sherman, The Procter &
Gamble Company, US & S Minko, M Motornov & R Lupitskyy, Clarkson University, US
Paper unavailable at time of print

SESSION 3: RESPONSIVE COMPOSITES
Paper 7 
New microfluidic elastomer composites with switchable shape, stiffness, and color
Prof. Orlin D Velev, Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, North Carolina
State University, US

Paper 8 
New smart plastic with reversible and tunable transparent to opaque transition
Dr. Chris DeArmitt, Phantom Plastics, US

SESSION 4: BIOINTERFACES, CAPSULES, SENSORS AND SEPARATION DEVICES
Paper 9 
“Smart” (bio) polymeric surfaces: fabrication and characterization
Prof Stefan Zauscher, Department of Mechanical Engineering & Materials Science, Duke
University, US

Paper 10 
Emulsions-templated assembly of stimulus-responsive particles: smart colloidosomes
with tunable permeability and dissolution trigger
Dr. Sven Holger Behrens, School of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, Georgia Institute
of Technology, US

Paper 11 
Multifunctional layer-by-layer tailored capsules: delivery nanosystems with externally
triggered properties
Prof Gleb B Sukhorukov, Centre for Materials Research, Queen Mary University of London,
UK

Paper 12 
Stimuli-responsive thin hydrogel films and membranes
Dr. Sergiy Minko, Department of Chemistry & Biomolecular Science, Clarkson University, US

SESSION 5: SMART COLLOIDS AND HYDROGELS
Paper 13 
Biopolymer-based colloidal delivery systems
Dr. Ashok Patel, Unilever R&D Vlaardingen, The Netherlands
(Paper unavailable at time of print)

Paper 14 
Autonomic self-healing in hydrogel thin films
Prof Andrew Lyon & Antoinette B South, Georgia Institute of Technology, US

Paper 15 
Developments in “smart” temperature-responsive chromatographic resins
Dr. Brad Woonton, K De Silva, P Maharjan, CSIRO, Australia & M Hearn & W Jackson, ARC
Special Research Centre for Green Chemistry, Australia

SESSION 6: CELL INTERACTIONS WITH RESPONSIVE BIOMATERIALS
Paper 16 
Cell-responsive biomaterials for regenerative medicine applications
Prof Sarah Heilshorn, Stanford University, US

Paper 17 
Micropatterned poly (NIPAM) for engineering cell sheets with defined structural
organization
Prof Joyce Y Wong, BC Isenberg, C Williams, Y Tsuda, T Shimizu, M Yamato & T Okano,
Department of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University College of Engineering, US
(Paper unavailable at time of print)

SESSION 7: GENETICALLY ENGINEERED “SMART” POLYPEPTIDES
Paper 18 
Bioengineering of elastin-mimetic smart materials
Prof Vincent P Conticello, M Patterson, S Payne, W Kim, A McMillan & E Wright, Department
of Chemistry, Emory University, US

Paper 19 
Recombinamers and derived functional systems: from nano-objects to macro gels
Prof J Carlos Rodriguez-Cabello, GIR BIOFORGE, University of Valladolid, Spain

Paper 20
Thermally targeted delivery of therapeutic peptides
Prof Drazen Raucher & Gene L Bidwell III, Department of Biochemistry, University of
Mississippi Medical Center, US