New Books on Smart Materials and Polymer Chemistry

Need to get an overview of the latest topics in Polymer Chemistry? Read the latest titles in the RSC Polymer Chemistry Series:

Fundamentals of Controlled/Living Radical PolymerizationFundamentals of Controlled/Living Radical Polymerizaion edited by Nicolay V. Tsarevsky, Southern Methodist University, USA and Brent S. Sumerlin, University of Florida, USA.

Provides an in-depth history, description, and mechanistic understanding of each of the controlled/living radical polymerization techniques and practical details necessary to carry out the reactions.

Functional Polymers for Nanomedicine edited by Youqing Shen, Zhejiang University, China

A complete overview of the different strategies for designing polymers for targeted gene therapy and drug delivery for researchers in polymer science, nanotechnology and pharmacy.

Functional Polymers for NanomedicineInterested in the latest developments in functional materials and their applications in biomedicine and energy? Find out more from the latest titles in the RSC Smart Materials Book Series:

Smart Materials for Drug Delivery (Volume 1 and Volume 2) edited by Carmen Alvarez-Lorenzo and Angel Concheiro, Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Spain

Written by leading experts in the field, the book provides both an introduction to the key areas for graduate students and new researchers in the stimuli-responsive field as well as serving as a reference for those already working on fundamental materials research or their applications.

Look out for the following forthcoming new titles in Nano, Polymer and Materials Science:

Smart Materials for Drug Delivery

Responsive Photonic Nanostructuresedited by Yadong Yin, Unversity of California, Riverside, USA
Materials Design Inspired by Nature edited by Peter Fratzl , John Dunlop and Richard Weinkamer, Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Germany
Nanoscience for the Conservation of Works of Art edited by Piero Baglioni and David Chelazzi, University of Florence, Italy
Water Droplets to Nanotechnology by Plinio Innocenzi, Luca Malfatti, University of Sassari, Italy and Paolo Falcaro, CSIRO, Australia
Polymer Nanofibers by Dario Pisignano, University of Salento, Italy

Don’t forget you can freely access the table of contents, preface, front matter and first chapter of every eBook via the RSC Publishing website

Book Reviews

Chemistry World says “It is impossible to do justice here to the immense amount of useful information this book contains.” about Materials for a Sustainable Future edited by Trevor M Letcher and Janet L Scott – read more in the article.

Meet the Team

Commissioning Editor Leanne Marle will be attending the 11th International Conference on Materials Chemistry (MC11), University of Warwick, UK, 8th -11th July. Do let me know if you are attending and would like to arrange a meeting to discuss book publishing with the Royal Society of Chemistry.

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