Publisher's Synopsis
This book presents a collection of review papers which give an up-to-date interdisciplinary view of current technology and research on polymer surfaces. Contributors are drawn from both academia and industry, and represent a cross-section of subject interests. Individual reviews cover analytical techniques, properties and reactions of surfaces and interfaces, modelling and synthesis, molecular engineering and biomedical applications.;Researchers in industry and academic laboratories will be interested in this volume, whether they are working on applications for polymers or specifically in surface science per se.