Silicon Based Polymers: Advances in Synthesis and Supramolecular Organization

by Franïois Ganachaud (Editor), Sylvie Boileau (Editor), Bruno Boury (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781402085277
Publisher:	Springer Netherlands
Publication date:	10/24/2008
Edition description:	2008
Pages:	285
Product dimensions:	6.30(w) x 9.30(h) x 0.70(d)

Table of Contents

Functional Polysiloxanes.- New Avenues, New Outcomes: Nanoparticle Catalysis for Polymer Makeovers.- Polysiloxane Based Interpenetrating Polymer Networks: synthesis and Properties.- Simple Strategies to Manipulate Hydrophilic Domains in Silicones.- Aldehyde and Carboxy Functional Polysiloxanes.- Molecular Devices. Chiral, Bichromophoric Silicones: Ordering Principles in Complex Molecules.- Modified Azo-Polysiloxanes for Complex Photo-Sensible Supramolecular Systems.- Thermoreversible Crosslinking of Silicones Using Acceptor-Donor Interactions.- Star-shape Poly(vinylmethyl-co-dimethyl)siloxanes with Carbosilane Core – Synthesis and Application.- Copolycondensation of Functional Silanes and Siloxanes in Solution Using tris(pentafluorophenyl)borane as a Catalyst in a View to Generate Hybrid Silicones.- Hydrosilylation of Polymethylhydrogenosiloxanes in the Presence of Functional Molecules Such as Amines, Esters or Alcohols.- High Refraction Index Polysiloxanes via Organometallic Routes – An Overview.- Grafting—-Cyclodextrins to Silicone, Formulation of Emulsions and Encapsulation of Antifungal Drug.- Glycosilicones.- Functional Polysilsesquioxanes.- Silsesquioxane-Based Polymers: Synthesis of Phenylsilsesquioxanes with Double-Decker Structure and Their Polymers.- Organosilica Mesoporous Materials with Double Functionality: Amino Groups and—-Cyclodextrin Synthesis and Properties.- Direct synthesis of Mesoporous Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Silica Powders and Thin Films for Potential Non Linear Optic Applications.- Self-Association in Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Silicon-Based Material Prepared by Surfactant-Free Sol-Gel of Organosilane.- Polysilanes.- The Synthesis, Self-Assembly and Self-Organisation of Polysilane Block Copolymers.