Responsive Membranes and Materials

This book on responsive membranes and materials covers recent advances in the generation and application of materials whose transport properties undergo a dramatic change upon exposure to an external stimulus which may be pH, temperature, light, ionic strength, molecular, electrical or magnetic. Topics to be covered include development of responsive membranes and materials, biomimetic polymer gels, remote controlled materials and membranes, constitutional membranes, carbon nanotube-based responsive materials, shape memory polymers, sensing and actuating, tunable membranes, and computational approaches. The applications will range from biopharmaceutical, to drug delivery systems to water treatment applications as well as development of responsive membrane structures for porosity tunable membranes. The editors will also write an overview chapter explaining all the responsive characteristics and the role of external stimulus with a unified theme.