Chemomechanical Instabilities in Responsive Materials

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Borckmans, P. (Editor), Kepper, P. (Editor), Khokhlov, A. R. (Editor), Mťens, S. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2009.
• Series: NATO Science for Peace and Security Series A: Chemistry and Biology,
• Subjects: Physics.; Chemistry, Physical organic.; Polymers.; Differentiable dynamical systems.; Thermodynamics.; Soft condensed matter.; Soft Matter, Complex Fluids.; Physical Chemistry.; Dynamical Systems and Ergodic Theory.; Mechanics, Fluids, Thermodynamics.; Polymer Sciences.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2993-5

This volume contains a selection of the papers presented by renowned specialists of each field. It is the first book in which the communities of nonlinear chemists and gel specialist communicate and show how interactions between the two fields can actually produce working devices based on the transd...

Table of Contents:

• From Sustained Oscillations to Stationary Reaction-Diffusion Patterns.-Mechanochemical Instabilities in Active Gels
• An Excursion in Theoretical Non Linear Chemistry: From Oscillations to Turing Patterns
• Chemomechanics: Oscillatory Dynamics in Chemoresponsive Gels
• Structural Approaches on the Toughness in Double Network Hydrogels
• Chemomechanical Dynamics of Responsive Gels
• Autonomous Rhythmic Drug Delivery Systems Based on Chemical and Biochemomechanical Oscillators; R.A. Siegel
• Structure Formation and Nonlinear Dynamics in Polyelectrolyte Responsive Gels
• Nonlinear Chemical Dynamics in Synthetic Polymer Systems
• Internal Stress as a Link Between Macroscale and Mesoscale Mechanics
• On Some Passive and Active Motion in Biology.-.