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© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
T. J. Gutiérrez (ed.), Reactive and Functional Polymers Volume Three,
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50457-1_1
Chapter 1
Advanced Materials Made From Reactive
and Functional Polymers: Editor’s Insights
Tomy J. Gutiérrez
Abstract Reactive and functional polymers have allowed the development of
advanced materials such as active and intelligent polymers, electroactive polymers,
multi-response polymers, shape memory polymers, stimuli responsive polymers,
etc. for different applications. With this chapter, we open these main topics, which
will be analyzed in this volume.
Keywords Active and intelligent polymers · Electroactive polymers · Multiresponse polymers · Shape memory polymers · Stimuli responsive polymers
1.1 Editor’s Insights
The future of new advanced materials will go through the development of reactive
and functional polymers with the aim of obtaining polymers with outstanding and
extravagant properties to be used in different domestic, industrial and extraordinary
applications. With this in mind, these aspects will be analyzed exhaustively in this
book, considering several fields of application (Alizadeh et al. 2019; Gutiérrez
2017a, b, 2018a, b, 2019, 2021; Gutiérrez and Álvarez 2016; Gutiérrez and Alvarez
2017a, b, c, d, 2018; Gutiérrez and González 2016, 2017; Gutiérrez et al. 2015a, b,
2016a, b, 2017, 2018a, b, 2019, 2021; Herniou--Julien et al. 2019; Khosravi et al.
2020; Merino et al. 2018a, b, 2019a, b; Tomadoni et al. 2020; Toro-Márquez et al.
2018; Valencia et al. 2019; Zarrintaj et al. 2019).
T. J. Gutiérrez (*)
Thermoplastic Composite Materials (CoMP) Group, Faculty of Engineering, Institute of
Research in Materials Science and Technology (INTEMA), National University of Mar del
Plata (UNMdP) and National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), Colón,
Mar del Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina
e-mail: tomy.gutierrez@fi.mdp.edu.ar
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
T. J. Gutiérrez (ed.), Reactive and Functional Polymers Volume Three,
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50457-1_1
Chapter 1
Advanced Materials Made From Reactive
and Functional Polymers: Editor’s Insights
Tomy J. Gutiérrez
Abstract Reactive and functional polymers have allowed the development of
advanced materials such as active and intelligent polymers, electroactive polymers,
multi-response polymers, shape memory polymers, stimuli responsive polymers,
etc. for different applications. With this chapter, we open these main topics, which
will be analyzed in this volume.
Keywords Active and intelligent polymers · Electroactive polymers · Multiresponse polymers · Shape memory polymers · Stimuli responsive polymers
1.1 Editor’s Insights
The future of new advanced materials will go through the development of reactive
and functional polymers with the aim of obtaining polymers with outstanding and
extravagant properties to be used in different domestic, industrial and extraordinary
applications. With this in mind, these aspects will be analyzed exhaustively in this
book, considering several fields of application (Alizadeh et al. 2019; Gutiérrez
2017a, b, 2018a, b, 2019, 2021; Gutiérrez and Álvarez 2016; Gutiérrez and Alvarez
2017a, b, c, d, 2018; Gutiérrez and González 2016, 2017; Gutiérrez et al. 2015a, b,
2016a, b, 2017, 2018a, b, 2019, 2021; Herniou--Julien et al. 2019; Khosravi et al.
2020; Merino et al. 2018a, b, 2019a, b; Tomadoni et al. 2020; Toro-Márquez et al.
2018; Valencia et al. 2019; Zarrintaj et al. 2019).
T. J. Gutiérrez (*)
Thermoplastic Composite Materials (CoMP) Group, Faculty of Engineering, Institute of
Research in Materials Science and Technology (INTEMA), National University of Mar del
Plata (UNMdP) and National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), Colón,
Mar del Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina
e-mail: tomy.gutierrez@fi.mdp.edu.ar