Atul Tiwari received his PhD in Polymer Science from the Macromolecular Research Centre, R.D. University, Jabalpur, India, and his second master degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA. In 2004, Dr. Tiwari was invited as a postdoctoral fellow by the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Hawaii at Manoa, where he developed five technologies that were later patented by the university and transferred to companies. He currently works as a Research Faculty Member in the College of Engineering at the university. He has been actively engaged as a consultant to companies working in various fields of polymer science, engineering, and technology. As an academician, Dr. Tiwari has published more than 60 peer-reviewed research articles related to material science and has co-authored and edited 10 books. He has been bestowed with Chartered Chemist and Chartered Scientist status from the Royal Society of Chemistry, UK, and is a member of several other professional bodies in the UK, USA, and India.

Mark D. Soucek is a Professor in the Department of Polymer Engineering, University of Akron. In 2003, Dr. Soucek was selected as a Gordon Award Finalist for his work in UV-Curable Bio-based polymers. In 2004, Dr. Soucek was awarded the Radtech Innovation Award for his work in UV-curable coatings. In 2004 and 2005, he received an honorable mention for the Gordon Award for Core-Shell latex work, and UV-curing of Unsaturated Polyesters. In 2009, Professor Soucek won his second Roon Award for a developing a new class of alkyd coatings. He presently has more than 100 research papers published all in coating science.

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A unique and indispensable one-stop encyclopedia for academicians and industrial sector scientists and engineers working on applied silicone technologies

The Concise Encyclopedia of High Performance Silicones contains critical information on silicones (i.e., polysiloxanes) that are commercially available for high performance applications. Although voluminous literature is available to readers, vital information is hard to find as it remains scattered. This encyclopedia is compiled for a broad readership and contains carefully screened chapters on cutting edge technologies available in the field of silicones.

Divided into three sections--Synthesis Methodologies of Silicones; Characterizing the Silicones; and the Applications of Silicones--the book starts by explaining various innovative techniques adopted by chemists for the synthesis of novel silicone materials. The featured examples include the syntheses of biologically safer silicones through the use of enzymes; the use of silicone modified epoxy coatings in controlling the corrosion and biofouling activities on metal alloys; the use of smart silicone nanoparticles in paint and coating systems; the effect of irradiation on silicone chemistry; biocompatible silicones; and the use of polydimethylsiloxane in the preparation of microfluidic devices.

The second section of the book helps readers in characterizing the silicones. A comprehensive review on the use of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy on silicones will assist in analyzing the synthesized silicones with different types of NMR techniques. The use of FTIR techniques on silicones will help readers in extracting the hard-to-find spectral assignments. Similarly, the chapters on thermal degradation and the behavior of silicones at high frequency are deeply informative. The knowledge of safety and toxicity aspects, mathematical modeling for drug delivery, and structure-property correlation in silicones will help readers select the material for specific applications.

The last section explores current application areas of silicones. The use of silicones for soft electronics, contact lenses, membranes for separation technology, maxillofacial prosthetics, fiber optic-based chemical sensing, tissue engineering, and regenerative medicine is detailed in individual chapters. Finally, the use of silicone as microfluidic devices and biopharmaceutical containers is comprehensively described.

Readership

The Concise Encyclopedia of High Performance Silicones will be an invaluable source of information for researchers, engineers, and students from diverse backgrounds including physics, chemistry, materials science & engineering, biotechnology, pharmacy, medical science, and biomedical engineering.

Zusammenfassung
The encyclopedia will be an invaluable source of information for researchers and students from diverse backgrounds including physics, chemistry, materials science and surface engineering, biotechnology, pharmacy, medical science, and biomedical engineering. .

Inhalt

1 Room Temperature Vulcanized Silicone Rubber Coatings: Application in High Voltage Substations 3 Kiriakos Siderakis and Dionisios Pylarinos 1.1 Introduction 3 1.2 Pollution of High Voltage Insulators 4 1.3 Silicone Coatings for High Voltage Ceramic Insulators 5 1.4 RTV SIR Coatings Formulation 6 1.5 Hydrophobicity in RTV SIR 10 1.6 Electrical Performance of RTV SIR Coatings 13 1.7 Conclusions 13 References 13 2 Silicone Copolymers: Enzymatic Synthesis and Properties 19 Yadagiri Poojari 2.1 Introduction 19 2.2 Polysiloxanes 20 2.3 Silicone Aliphatic Polyesters 20 2.4 Silicone Aliphatic Polyesteramides 21 2.5 Silicone Fluorinated Aliphatic Polyesteramides 21 2.6 Silicone Aromatic Polyesters and Polyamides 21 2.7 Silicone Polycaprolactone 22 2.8 Silicone Polyethers 23 2.9 Silicone Sugar Conjugates 24 2.10 Stereo-Selective Esterification of Organosiloxanes 24 2.11 Conclusion and Outlook 25 Acknowledgments 25 References 25 3 Phosphorus Containing Siliconized Epoxy Resins 27 S. Ananda Kumar, M. Alagar and M. Mandhakini 3.1 Introduction 27 3.2 Preparation of Siliconized Epoxy-Bismaleimide Intercrosslinked Matrices 29 3.3 Phosphorus-Containing Siliconized Epoxy Resin as Thermal and Flame Retardant Coatings 31 3.4 High Functionality Resins for the Fabrication of Nanocomposites 33 3.5 Anticorrosive and Antifouling Coating Performance of Siloxane- and Phosphorus-Modified Epoxy Composites 39 3.6 Summary and Conclusion 46 Acknowledgement 48 References 49 4 Nanostructured Silicone Materials 51 Joanna Lewandowska-Lancucka, Mariusz Kepczynski and Maria Nowakowska 4.1 Introduction 51 4.2 Solid Particles 52 4.3 Nanocapsules 56 4.4 Ultra-Thin Silicone Films 60 4.5 Conclusion and Outlook 61 References 62 5 High Refractive Index Silicone 65 Zulkifli Ahmad 5.1 Introduction 65 5.2 Theory of RI 66 5.3 High Refractive Index Silicone 69 5.4 Applications 71 5.5 Conclusion and Outlook 74 6 Irradiation Induced Chemical and Physical Effects in Silicones 75 R. Huszank 6.1 Introduction 75 6.2 Sources of Irradiation 76 6.3 Irradiation-Induced Chemical Effects in Silicones 77 6.4 Irradiation-Induced Physical Effects in Silicones 81 6.5 Conclusion and Outlook 83 7 Developments and Properties of Reinforced Silicone Rubber Nanocomposites 85 Suneel Kumar Srivastava and Bratati Pradhan 7.1 Introduction 85 7.2 Different Types of Nanofillers Used in Silicone Rubber (SR) 86 7.3 Preparation of Silicone Rubber (SR) Nanocomposites 89 7.4 Morphology of Silicone Rubber (SR) Nanocomposites 90 7.5 Properties of Silicone Rubber Nanocomposites 94 7.6 Conclusion and Outlook 105 References 105 8 Functionalization of Silicone Rubber Surfaces towards Biomedical Applications 111 Ligia R. Rodrigues and Fernando Dourado 8.1 Introduction 111 8.2 Silicone Rubber -- Material of Excellence for Biomedical Applications? 111 8.3 Surface Modification of Silicone Rubber 113 8.4 Conclusion and Outlook 119 References 120 9 Functionalization of Colloidal Silica Nanoparticles and Their Use in Paint and Coatings 123 Peter Greenwood and Anders Torncrona 9.1 Introduction to Colloidal Silica 123 9.2 Chemistry of Silica Surface Functionalization by Organosilanes 124 9.3 Characterization and Produc…