Photomechanical materials, composites, and systems : wireless transduction of light into work / edited by Timothy J. White.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

White, T. (Timothy), editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Smart materials.

Polymers--Optical properties.

Polymers.

Polymers--Mechanical properties.

Nanocomposites (Materials).

Physical Description:

xvi, 416 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2017.

Summary:

"Covers the full scope of photomechanical materials: polymers, crystals, ceramics, and nanocomposites"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

A historical overview of photomechanical effects in materials, composites, and systems / Toru Ube and Tomiki Ikeda

Photochromism in the solid state / Oleg Bushuyev and Christopher Barrett

Photo-mechanics: bend, curl, topography, and topology / Daniel Corbett, Carl Modes and Mark Warner

Photomechanical effects in amorphous and semi-crystalline polymers / Jeong Jae Wie

Photomechanical effects in liquid crystalline polymer networks and elastomers / Timothy White

Photomechanical effects in polymer nanocomposites / Balaji Panchapakesan, James Loomis and Eugene Terentjev

Photomechanical effects in photochromic crystals / Lingyan Zhu, Fei Tong, Christopher Bardeen and Rabih Al-Kaysi

Photomechanical effects in piezoelectric ceramics / Kenji Uchino

Switching surface topographies based on liquid crystal network coatings / Danqing Liu and Dick Broer

Photoinduced shape programming / Taylor Ware

Photomechanical effects to enable devices / M. Ravi Shankar

Photomechanical effects in materials, composites, and systems: outlook and future challenges / Timothy J. White.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Photomechanical materials, composites, and systems

ISBN:

9781119123309

1119123305

OCLC:

961828393