Photoactive Functional Soft Materials: Preparation, Properties, and Applications

By: Quan Li

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Synopsis: The book covers design, synthesis, properties and applications of functional photoactive soft materials, including aspects of polymers, block copolymers, elastomers, biomaterials, liquid crystals, chemical and physical gels, colloids, host-guest systems and foams. Authoritative accounts describing various structural and functional aspects of photoactive soft materials are combined in a unified manner in this book. The main focus is on the design and fabrication of photoactive functional soft materials for materials science, nanophotonics, nanotechnology, biological, biomedical and pharmacological applications.