Smart Membrane Materials and Systems: From Flat Membranes to Microcapsule Membranes

by Liang-Yin Chu

Overview

“Smart Membrane Materials and Systems: From Flat Membranes to Microcapsule Membranes" comprehensively and systematically treats modern understanding of smart or intelligent membranes with environmental stimuli-responsive functions. The contents range from flat membranes to microcapsule membranes with various response properties, such as thermo-response, pH-response, glucose-response, molecular-recognition, and dual-/multi-stimuli-response. While chapters may be read as stand-alone, together they clearly describe cover design concepts, fabrication strategies and methods, microstructures and performances of smart membranes. Vivid schematics and illustrations throughout the book enhance accessibility to the theory and technologies.

The book is intended for researchers and postgraduate students in membrane science and technology, separations and controlled-release.

Dr. Liang-Yin Chu is a professor at the School of Chemical Engineering, Sichuan University, China. He is a Distinguished Young Scholar of the National Natural Science Foundation of China and a Distinguished Professor of "Chang Jiang Scholars Program" of the Ministry of Education of China.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783642181139
Publisher:	Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Publication date:	10/20/2011
Series:	Advanced Topics in Science and Technology in China
Edition description:	2011
Pages:	268
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.04(d)

Table of Contents

Introduction.- Thermo-Responsive Gating Membranes: Design, Microstructures and Performances.- Smart Microcapsules with Thermo-Responsive Gating Membranes.- Smart Microcapsules with Thermo-Responsive Hydrogel Membranes.- Thermo-Responsive Membranes for Chiral Resolution.- Thermo-Responsive Membranes for Affinity Separation.- pH-Responsive Gating Membrane Systems with Pumping Effects.- Smart Microcapsules with pH-Responsive Hydrogel Membranes.- Glucose-Responsive Gating Membranes.- Molecular-Recognizable Smart Membranes.- Dual-/Multi-Stimuli-Responsive Smart Membranes.- Perspectives of Smart Membrane Materials and Systems.