Adaptive and functional polymers, textiles and their applications

• Main Author: Hu, Jinlian.
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Singapore ; Hackensack, NJ : Imperial College Press ; Distributed by World Scientific, ©2011.
• Subjects: Polymers.; Polymers > Industrial applications.; Textile fibers, Synthetic.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9781848164765; 1848164769; 9781628702262; 1628702265; 9781848164758; 1848164750
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xxii, 392 pages) : illustrations

Adaptive polymers include those which are responsive to different stimuli - namely physical, mechanical, chemical and biological - with controlled and/or predicable behavior. Many technological breakthroughs and scientific advances have been made in the last few decades and this volume aims to cover...