TY - GEN AU - Chu, Liang-Yin AU - Wang, Wei TI - Microfluidics for advanced functional polymeric materials SN - 9783527341825 U1 - 620.106 PY - 2017/// CY - Weinheim PB - Wiley-VCH KW - Microfluidics KW - Polymers N2 - A comprehensive and systematic treatment of our current understanding of the microfluidic technique and its advantages in the controllable fabrication of advanced functional polymeric materials. Introducing and summarizing recent advances and achievements in the field, the authors cover the design and fabrication of microfluidic devices, the fundamentals and strategies for controllable microfluidic generation of multiphase liquid systems, and the use of these liquid systems with an elaborate combination of their structures and compositions for generating novel polymer materials, such as microcapsules, microfibers, valves, and membranes. Clear diagrams and illustrations throughout the text make the relevant theory and technologies more readily accessible. The result is a specialist reference for materials scientists, organic, polymer and physical chemists, and chemical engineers ER -