Ebook: Chemomechanical Instabilities in Responsive Materials

The present volume includes most of the material of the invited lectures delivered at the NATO Advanced Study Institute “Morphogenesis through the interplay of nonlinear chemical instabilities and elastic active media” held from 2th to 14th July 2007 at the Institut d’Etudes Scientifiques de Cargèse (http://www.iesc.univ-corse.fr/), in Corsica (France). This traditional place to organize Summer Schools and Workshops in a well equipped secluded location at the border of the Mediterranean sea has, over many years now, earned an increasing deserved reputation. Non-linear dynamics of non equilibrium systems has worked its way into a great number of fields and plays a key role in the understanding of se- organization and emergence phenomena in domains as diverse as chemical reactors, laser physics, fluid dynamics, electronic devices and biological morphogenesis. In the latter case, the viscoelastic properties of tissues are also known to play a key role. The control and formulation of soft responsive or “smart” materials has been a fast growing field of material science, specially in the area of po- mer networks, due to their growing applications in bio-science, chemical sensors, intelligent microfluidic devices, … . Nature is an important p- vider of active materials whether at the level of tissues or at that of s- cellular structures. As a consequence, the fundamental understanding of the physical mechanisms at play in responsive materials also shines light in the understanding of biological artefacts.

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This volume contains a selection of the papers presented by renowned specialists of each field. It is the first book in which the communities of nonlinear chemists and gel specialist communicate and show how interactions between the two fields can actually produce working devices based on the transduction of chemical to mechanical energy and vice-versa. Beside subtle ways of using the slaving of responsive materials devices to oscillatory reactions, emphasis is brought on emerging properties that are possessed by neither of the separated constituents. Several contributions on these aspects are included, in relation to their potential relevance to biological, medical and technological applications. The whole constitutes a specific multidisciplinary "new" field. Both advanced and basic aspects of the two fields can be found the this collection of lectures. The book will not only benefit to doctoral students or young post-docs to learn the ropes of both subjects, but also to active researchers from one field, to "catch up" on the other without getting lost in the huge literature that exists in each of the particular fields.

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This volume contains a selection of the papers presented by renowned specialists of each field. It is the first book in which the communities of nonlinear chemists and gel specialist communicate and show how interactions between the two fields can actually produce working devices based on the transduction of chemical to mechanical energy and vice-versa. Beside subtle ways of using the slaving of responsive materials devices to oscillatory reactions, emphasis is brought on emerging properties that are possessed by neither of the separated constituents. Several contributions on these aspects are included, in relation to their potential relevance to biological, medical and technological applications. The whole constitutes a specific multidisciplinary "new" field. Both advanced and basic aspects of the two fields can be found the this collection of lectures. The book will not only benefit to doctoral students or young post-docs to learn the ropes of both subjects, but also to active researchers from one field, to "catch up" on the other without getting lost in the huge literature that exists in each of the particular fields.

Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
From Sustained Oscillations to Stationary Reaction-Diffusion Patterns....Pages 1-37
Mechanochemical Instabilities in Active Gels....Pages 39-56
An Excursion in Theoretical Non Linear Chemistry: From Oscillations to Turing Patterns....Pages 57-94
Chemomechanics: Oscillatory Dynamics in Chemoresponsive Gels....Pages 95-116
Structural Approaches on the Toughness in Double Network Hydrogels....Pages 117-138
Chemomechanical Dynamics of Responsive Gels....Pages 139-173
Autonomous Rhythmic Drug Delivery Systems Based on Chemical and Biochemomechanical Oscillators....Pages 175-201
Structure Formation and Nonlinear Dynamics in Polyelectrolyte Responsive Gels....Pages 203-219
Nonlinear Chemical Dynamics In Synthetic Polymer Systems....Pages 221-240
Internal Stress as a Link Between Macroscale and Mesoscale Mechanics....Pages 241-250
On Some Passive and Active Motion in Biology....Pages 251-273

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This volume contains a selection of the papers presented by renowned specialists of each field. It is the first book in which the communities of nonlinear chemists and gel specialist communicate and show how interactions between the two fields can actually produce working devices based on the transduction of chemical to mechanical energy and vice-versa. Beside subtle ways of using the slaving of responsive materials devices to oscillatory reactions, emphasis is brought on emerging properties that are possessed by neither of the separated constituents. Several contributions on these aspects are included, in relation to their potential relevance to biological, medical and technological applications. The whole constitutes a specific multidisciplinary "new" field. Both advanced and basic aspects of the two fields can be found the this collection of lectures. The book will not only benefit to doctoral students or young post-docs to learn the ropes of both subjects, but also to active researchers from one field, to "catch up" on the other without getting lost in the huge literature that exists in each of the particular fields.

Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
From Sustained Oscillations to Stationary Reaction-Diffusion Patterns....Pages 1-37
Mechanochemical Instabilities in Active Gels....Pages 39-56
An Excursion in Theoretical Non Linear Chemistry: From Oscillations to Turing Patterns....Pages 57-94
Chemomechanics: Oscillatory Dynamics in Chemoresponsive Gels....Pages 95-116
Structural Approaches on the Toughness in Double Network Hydrogels....Pages 117-138
Chemomechanical Dynamics of Responsive Gels....Pages 139-173
Autonomous Rhythmic Drug Delivery Systems Based on Chemical and Biochemomechanical Oscillators....Pages 175-201
Structure Formation and Nonlinear Dynamics in Polyelectrolyte Responsive Gels....Pages 203-219
Nonlinear Chemical Dynamics In Synthetic Polymer Systems....Pages 221-240
Internal Stress as a Link Between Macroscale and Mesoscale Mechanics....Pages 241-250
On Some Passive and Active Motion in Biology....Pages 251-273
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