Advanced Materials gives an unique insight into the specialized materials that are required to run our modern society. Provided within are the fundamental theories and applications of advanced materials for metals, glasses, polymers, composites, and nanomaterials. This book is ideal for scientists and engineers of materials science, chemistry, physics, and engineering, and students of these disciplines.

• Preface
• Contents
• List of Contributors
• 1. Design Principles for Organic Semiconductors
• 2. CO₂-Controlled Polymer Self-Assembly and Application
• 3. Self-Healing Materials: Design and Applications
• 4. Redox-Responsive Self-Assembled Amphiphilic Materials: Review and Application to Biological Systems
• 5. Ultrafine Nanofiber Formation by Centrifugal Spinning
• 6. Rational Design of Highly Efficient Non-precious Metal Catalysts for Oxygen Reduction in Fuel Cells and Metal–Air Batteries
• 7. Toward the Assembly of Dynamic and Complex DNA Nanostructures
• 8. Alternating Copolymer Nanotubes
• 9. Molecular Glasses: Emerging Materials for the Next Generation
• 10. Production of Pluripotent Stem Cell-Derived Pancreatic Cells by Manipulating Cell-Surface Interactions
• 11. Phase Diagram of an Au–Pt Solid Core–Liquid Shell Nanoparticle
• 12. Directing the Self-Assembly of Nanoparticles for Advanced Materials
• 13. Toward Well-Defined Carbon Nanotubes and Graphene Nanoribbons
• 14. Modeling of Lithium-Ion Batteries
• Index