Advances and Applications of Block Copolymers

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2023
• Subjects: 3D printing; 4D printing; acrylic block copolymer; adsorption; amphipathic; anionic polymerization; asymmetric interactions; baroplasticity; barotropicity; biobased; biomaterials; block copolymer; block copolymer template; block copolymers; Chemistry; collagen; conjugated copolymers; copolymers; Cr(VI); cyclic voltammetry; cytotoxicity; diblock copolymer; double gyroid; double hydrophilic block copolymers; energy conversion; energy dissipation; epoxy; Flory–Huggins interaction parameter; general self-assembly; hierarchical pores; high χ terpolymers; HOMO; hybrid copolymer; hybrid materials; hydroboration/oxidation reactions; indacenothienothiophene; indacenothiophene; isotactic polypropylene; Landau analysis; low molecular weight triblock terpolymers; lower disorder-order transition; LUMO; Mathematics and Science; melt-crystallization; membranes; metallocene catalysts; modification of PB1; modifier; n/a; nanochannels; nanonetwork; nanostructuring; optical energy gap; Organic chemistry; phenol; photosensitizers; poly(4-vinylpyridine); poly(N-methyl-4-vinylpyridinium iodide); polyacrylamide; polyion complex micelles; polylactides; polymer brushes; polymerization-induced self-assembly; porous carbon fibers; porphyrins; preferential solvation; propylene-butene copolymers; quaternization; Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects; Research and information: general; rGO; ring-opening polymerization; role of defects excluded from crystals; scaffolds; self-assembly; silica; small-angle X-ray scattering; solvatochromism; star-block copolymer; stereocomplexation; supercapacitor; templated polymerization; thermoplastic elastomer; tissue engineering; topology; triblock terpolymers; tributylborane; upper order-disorder transition; weak segregation regime; wettability; α and γ forms
• ISBN: 3036584889; 3036584897; 9783036584881; 9783036584898
• DOI: 10.3390/books978-3-0365-8488-1

The most important class of polymers is block copolymers (BCPs) since they can be prepared through different methods and exhibit various properties combined with chemically different segments. The importance of block copolymers can be supported by the multitude of related manuscripts published daily, their use in practical applications in almost all areas, and novel discoveries based on BCPs in many aspects of life. This Special Issue focuses on various matters from different areas of block copolymer research, showing advances and applications in self-assembly, crystallization, synthesis, chemical modification, 3D printing, membranes, energy materials, nanotechnology, hybrid materials, micelles, order–disorder transition, and biomaterials.