New Polymeric Materials Based on Element-Blocks

This book introduces the recent progress that has resulted from utilizing the idea of "element-block polymers". A structural unit consisting of various groups of elements is called an "element-block." The design and synthesis of new element-blocks, polymerization of these blocks, and development of methods of forming higher-order structures and achieving hierarchical interface control in order to yield the desired functions are expected to result in manifold advantages. These benefits will encourage the creation of new polymeric materials that share, at a high level, electronic, optical, and magnetic properties not achievable with conventional organic polymeric materials as well as forming properties of molding processability and flexible designability that inorganic materials lack. By pioneering innovative synthetic processes that exploit the reactivity of elements and the preparation techniques employed for inorganic element-blocks, the aim is (1) to create a new series of innovativepolymers based on the novel concept of element-block polymers, in which the characteristics of elements are extensively combined and utilized, and (2) to formulate theories related to these polymers. This book demonstrates especially the design strategies and the resulting successful examples offering highly functional materials that utilize element-block polymers as a key unit.  

Table of Contents:
1.Element-Block Materials: New Concept for Development of Advanced Hybrids and Inorganic Polymers - 2.Si-, Ge-, and Sn-Bridged Biaryls as π-Conjugated Element Blocks - 3.Elements-block π-Conjugated Polymers by Post-element-transformation Technique - 4.Borylated Polystyrenes as Versatile Functional Materials - 5.Element-block polymeric materials based on cage silsesquioxane frameworks - 6.Silsesquioxane based hierarchical and hybrid materials - 7.Nanocomposite materials properties of aminophenylsilsesquioxanes - 8.Necklace-shaped Dimethylsiloxane Polymers Bearing Polyhedral Oligomeric Silsesquioxane Cages as a New Type of Organic–Inorganic Hybrid – 9.Alternative Aspects of Polythiophenes - 10.Polyphosphzenes as an Example of the Element-Blocks Approach to New Materials - 11.Electronic Structure of Element-Block Material As4S6 with Cage Shape toward "Soft Electride" - 12.Metalloxane cage compounds as an element-block - 13.Preparation of Element-Block Materials Using Inorganic Nanostructures and Their Applications - 14.Design of Element Blocks for Photoresponsive Organosiloxane-based Materials - 15.How can we control the "element-blocks" in transition metal oxide crystals? - 16.Organic-inorganic hybrid material with surface modified zirconia nanoparticles as element blocks - 17.Network formation conditions control water drop adhesion for VK100 and a model Pt-cured silicone - 18.Block copolymers with element blocks: The metal-bisterpyridine linkage - 19.Three-dimensional Coordination Polymers composed of luminescent lanthanide element blocks - 20.Organic Hybrid Thermoelectric Materials Containing Nano-dispersed Poly(nickel 1,1,2,2-ethenetetrathiolata) as an Element Block - 21.Crystallization kinetics-induced self-assembly of inorganic element blocks and the surface enhanced Raman scattering based on Ag hierarchical structures - 22.Air-stable opto-electronic devices with metal-oxide cathodes - 23.Design of multi-functional soft-biomaterials basedon the intermediate water concept - 24.Synthesis of calcium-phosphate-based nanoparticles as biocompatible and biofunctional element blocks.