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:

1 online resource (447 pages) : color illustrations, photographs

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Hoboken, New Jersey : Wiley, 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 at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781119123293

1119123291

9781119123286

1119123283

9781119123279

1119123275

OCLC:

976036413