Focusing on the best-selling nanomaterials on the market today, this volume describes the advantages of POSS as a major building block in nanotechnology. Cutting-edge industrial applications are presented, applicable to areas including plastics, fuel, cells, sensors, catalysis, and more.

The commercial availability and decreasing cost of polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxanes in recent years has opened up the field to everybody who wishes to apply these unique properties in their own technologies. This is the first book to provide a comprehensive overview of these applications, and covers the synthesis, characterization and history of polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxanes, their use as metallasilsesquioxane catalysts, their effect upon polymer properties and plastics performance, and their use in superhydrophobic nanocomposites, and electronics, energy, space and biomedical applications.

"Applications of Polyhedral Oligomeric Silsesquioxanes" is a valuable reference for those working across a range of disciplines, including chemists, materials scientists, polymer physicists, plastics engineers, surface scientists, and anybody with a commercial or academic interest in plastics, composite materials, space materials, dental materials, tissue engineering, drug delivery, lithography, fuel cells, batteries, lubricants, or liquid crystal, LED, sensor, photovoltaic or biomedical devices.

Informs readers about the uses of POSS as a major building block in nanotechnology Dealing with one of the best-selling, least expensive and most widely used nanomaterials on the market today Covering cutting-edge industrial applications, also highly interesting for the industrial audience

Inhalt

1. Polyhedral Oligomeric Silsesquioxanes: From Early and Strategic Development through to Materials Application (Elda Markovic, Kristina Constantopolous and Janis G Matisons).- 2. Preparation and Characterisation of Polyhedral Oligosilsesquioxanes (David B. Cordes and Paul D. Lickiss).- 3. Metallasilsesquioxanes: Molecular Analogues of Heterogeneous Catalysts (Antony J. Ward, Anthony F. Masters and Thomas Maschmeyer).- 4. Polymers and Copolymers Containing Covalently Bonded Polyhedral Oligomeric Silsesquioxane Moieties (Katherine Grace Williams, Samuel Paul Gido and Edward Bryan Coughlin).- 5. Polyhedral Oligomeric Silsesquioxanes in Plastics (Chris DeArmitt).- 6. Fluorinated Polyhedral Oligosilsesquioxane Surfaces and Superhydrophobicity (Scott T. Iacono, Andrew J. Peloquin, Dennis W. Smith, Jr. and Joseph M. Mabry).- 7. Polyhedral Oligomeric Silsesquioxanes in Electronics and Energy Applications (Claire Hartmann-Thompson).- 8. Polyhedral Oligomeric Silsesquioxanes in Space Applications (Henry W. Brandhorst, Jr.).- 9. Biomedical Application of Polyhedral Oligomeric SilsesquioxaneNanoparticles (Hossein Ghanbari, Sayed Mahdi Marashi, Yasmin Rafiei, Karla Chaloupka and Alexander M. Seifalian).