Fullerene Polymers: Synthesis, Properties and Applications

Although polymer science is by now well developed and may be considered perfectly established, this is not the case for polymers containing fullerenes. Only having emerged over the past decade, the combination of fullerenes and polymer chemistry is a new interdisciplinary field aimed at achieving novel fullerene–based architectures with unprecedented properties and a wide range of applications. Written by an outstanding team of experts in the relevant areas of research, this book is based on a new classification of the different types of fullerene polymers according to their chemical structures. Covering all aspects, from different classes, to their synthesis and applications in material science, this volume is of great interest to polymer and synthetic chemists, but also for material scientists and industrial chemists.