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.