TY  - BOOK
AU  - Vikulina, Anna
AU  - Volodkin, Dmitry
AB  - Nowadays, polymer self-assembly has become extremely attractive for both biological (drug delivery, tissue engineering, scaffolds) and non-biological (packaging, semiconductors) applications. In nature, a number of key biological processes are driven by polymer self-assembly, for instance protein folding. Impressive morphologies can be assembled from polymers thanks to a diverse range of interactions involved, e.g., electrostatics, hydrophobic, hots-guest interactions, etc. Both 2D and 3D tailor-made assemblies can be designed through modern powerful techniques and approaches such as the layer-by-layer and the Langmuir-Blodgett deposition, hard and soft templating. This Special Issue highlights contributions (research papers, short communications, review articles) that focus on recent developments in polymer self-assembly for both fundamental understanding the assembly phenomenon and real applications.
DO  - 10.3390/books978-3-03928-507-5
ID  - OAPEN ID: 46037
KW  - evaporative self-assembly
KW  - encapsulation
KW  - n/a
KW  - microstructure
KW  - solvent vapor annealing
KW  - drug delivery
KW  - polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane
KW  - protein adsorption resistance
KW  - photo-sensitive
KW  - calcium carbonate
KW  - fluorescence
KW  - mucin
KW  - polymerisation
KW  - marine exopolysaccharide
KW  - transglutaminases
KW  - porous hydrogel
KW  - adsorption
KW  - aprotinin
KW  - nanoparticle
KW  - calcium alginate
KW  - protamine
KW  - nanocrystalline
KW  - self-assembly
KW  - morphological transformation
KW  - cell culture
KW  - block polymers
KW  - stimuli-responsive polymer
KW  - crosslinking
KW  - mesoporous
KW  - Ti6Al4V
KW  - polymer
KW  - flexible geometric confinement
KW  - layer-by-layer
KW  - surface modification
KW  - co-synthesis
KW  - nanolithography
KW  - CaCO3
KW  - synthetic polypeptide
KW  - air-liquid interface
KW  - food industry
KW  - stimuli-responsive polymers
KW  - field-effect transistor
KW  - Marangoni convection
KW  - polymer scaffold
KW  - collagen
KW  - biomedicine
KW  - thin films
KW  - controlled release
KW  - tension gradient
KW  - monolayer
L1  - https://mdpi.com/books/pdfview/book/2230
LA  - English
LK  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/59182
PB  - MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
PY  - 2020
SN  - 9783039285068
SN  - 9783039285075
TI  - Self-Assembly of Polymersnull
ER  - 
