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Submit a ProposalSmart Membranes and Sensors
 | Synthesis, Characterization, and Applications Edited by Annarosa Gugliuzza Copyright: 2014 | Status: Published ISBN: 9781118423790 | Hardcover | 438 pages Price: $200.95 USD  |
One Line Description
This important and ground-breaking book describes how nano-assembly approaches are used to make molecular manipulation in membranes, thereby tailoring desired properties on different length scales.
Audience
The book is aimed at researchers in chemistry, biology, biomedicine, materials science, textiles, and electronics who are involved with membranes and materials. Technologists and product managers from industry, including those responsible for research and development, building prototypes and commercial devices, will find this book to be especially valuable.
The book is aimed at researchers in chemistry, biology, biomedicine, materials science, textiles, and electronics who are involved with membranes and materials. Technologists and product managers from industry, including those responsible for research and development, building prototypes and commercial devices, will find this book to be especially valuable.
Description
Smart Membranes and Sensors synergistically combines the concepts of membranes and sensor materials and comprises a set of insightful chapters from leading scientists working in both fields. The focus is on the fabrication of smart membranes from sensor materials and the related impact on many technologically sophisticated areas such as telemedicine, microfluidics, drug delivery targeting, (bio)separation, labs-on-a-chip, textiles, power storage and release, environment monitoring, agro-food safety, cosmetics, architecture, automotive, etc.
The book covers various topics, including the choice of materials and techniques for assembling responsive membranes with the ability to transport mass, energy and signals on demand. It also includes an extensive description of the best techniques used to monitor molecular scale events, which are regarded as responsible for the smartness of multifunctional objects and for the conversion of chemical signals into optical, electrical, thermal and mechanical responses.
Encouraging readers to use this cross-disciplinary discussion for their own research, chemical, biological and physical concepts, expressed throughout the book, contribute to form a common language which allows the reader to discover causes for reflection and innovation, measuring how smart objects with desired properties can be tailored from existing materials and used flexibly for various developed applications.
Other novel features of the book include:
• Deals with materials smartness and suitable techniques to assemble and characterize them in sensor-like membranes
• Shows how ultra-smart functional devices can be accomplished by using traditional raw materials
• Describes particular key events, which control “sense to react and adapt” mechanisms
• Examines the potential of sensor-like membranes in some key strategic fields with particular emphasis on biomedicine, food and textiles markets. The benefits arising from the use of smart membranes are analyzed in terms of life quality, safety, and innovation.
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Smart Membranes and Sensors synergistically combines the concepts of membranes and sensor materials and comprises a set of insightful chapters from leading scientists working in both fields. The focus is on the fabrication of smart membranes from sensor materials and the related impact on many technologically sophisticated areas such as telemedicine, microfluidics, drug delivery targeting, (bio)separation, labs-on-a-chip, textiles, power storage and release, environment monitoring, agro-food safety, cosmetics, architecture, automotive, etc.
The book covers various topics, including the choice of materials and techniques for assembling responsive membranes with the ability to transport mass, energy and signals on demand. It also includes an extensive description of the best techniques used to monitor molecular scale events, which are regarded as responsible for the smartness of multifunctional objects and for the conversion of chemical signals into optical, electrical, thermal and mechanical responses.
Encouraging readers to use this cross-disciplinary discussion for their own research, chemical, biological and physical concepts, expressed throughout the book, contribute to form a common language which allows the reader to discover causes for reflection and innovation, measuring how smart objects with desired properties can be tailored from existing materials and used flexibly for various developed applications.
Other novel features of the book include:
• Deals with materials smartness and suitable techniques to assemble and characterize them in sensor-like membranes
• Shows how ultra-smart functional devices can be accomplished by using traditional raw materials
• Describes particular key events, which control “sense to react and adapt” mechanisms
• Examines the potential of sensor-like membranes in some key strategic fields with particular emphasis on biomedicine, food and textiles markets. The benefits arising from the use of smart membranes are analyzed in terms of life quality, safety, and innovation.
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Author / Editor Details
Annarosa Gugliuzza received her PhD in chemical science in 1999 and since 2001 she has been a Senior Researcher at the Institute of the Membrane Technology at the University of Calabria, Italy. She is a membrane technologist with interests in self-assembly technologies for the fabrication of nanocomposite functional membranes with very high levels of organization, structure, dynamics and associated properties. She has edited several books and authored many articles in peer-reviewed journals.
Annarosa Gugliuzza received her PhD in chemical science in 1999 and since 2001 she has been a Senior Researcher at the Institute of the Membrane Technology at the University of Calabria, Italy. She is a membrane technologist with interests in self-assembly technologies for the fabrication of nanocomposite functional membranes with very high levels of organization, structure, dynamics and associated properties. She has edited several books and authored many articles in peer-reviewed journals.
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