Huck Nanoscale Assembly

Chemical Techniques
1. Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-0-387-25656-6
Verlag: Springer US
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 244 Seiten

Reihe: Nanostructure Science and Technology

Nanotechnology has received tremendous interest over the last decade, not only from the scientific community but also from a business perspective and from the general public. Although nanotechnology is still at the largely unexplored frontier of science, it has the potential for extremely exciting technological innovations that will have an enormous impact on areas as diverse as information technology, medicine, energy supply and probably many others. The miniturization of devices and structures will impact the speed of devices and information storage capacity. More importantly, though, nanotechnology should lead to completely new functional devices as nanostructures have fundamentally different physical properties that are governed by quantum effects. When nanometer sized features are fabricated in materials that are currently used in electronic, magnetic, and optical applications, quantum behavior will lead to a set of unprecedented properties. The interactions of nanostructures with biological materials are largely unexplored. Future work in this direction should yield enabling technologies that allows the study and direct manipulation of biological processes at the (sub) cellular level.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Huck, Wilhelm T. S.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Preface;6
2;Contents;8
3;1 Structure Formation in Polymer Films;9
4;2 Functional Nanostructured Polymers;33
4.1;2.1. INTRODUCTION;33
4.2;2.2. PHASE SEPARATION OF POLYMER BLENDS IN LIGHT EMITTING DEVICES;34
4.3;2.3. PHASE SEPARATION OF BLOCK COPOLYMERS;38
4.4;2.4. CONTROLLED DEWETTING;42
4.5;2.5. POLYMER BRUSHES;44
4.6;2.6. CONCLUSIONS;47
4.7;ACKNOWLEDGMENTS;47
4.8;REFERENCES;48
5;3 Electronic Transport through Self-Assembled Monolayers;51
5.1;3.1. INTRODUCTION;51
5.2;3.2. MOLECULAR SELF-ASSEMBLY;52
5.3;3.3. ELECTRICAL CHARACTERIZATION METHODS;55
5.4;3.4. MOLECULAR CHARGE TRANSPORT;60
5.5;3.5. SUMMARY AND OUTLOOK;69
5.6;REFERENCES;69
6;4 Nanostructured Hydrogen-Bonded Rosette Assemblies;73
6.1;4.1. SELF-ASSEMBLY IN SOLUTION;73
6.2;4.2. SELF-ORGANIZATION OF ROSETTE ASSEMBLIES ON SURFACES;79
6.3;4.3. CONCLUSIONS;84
6.4;ACKNOWLEDGMENTS;85
6.5;REFERENCES;85
7;5 Self-Assembled Molecular Electronics;87
7.1;5.1. INTRODUCTION;87
7.2;5.2. THE FIELD EMERGES;88
7.3;5.3. RECENT WORK IN SELF-ASSEMBLED MOLECULAR ELECTRONICS;91
7.4;5.4. CONCLUSION;103
7.5;ACKNOWLEDGMENT;103
7.6;REFERENCES;103
8;6 Multivalent Ligand-Receptor Interactions on Planar Supported Membranes;107
8.1;6.1. INTRODUCTION;107
8.2;6.2. CREATION OF SPATIALLY ADDRESSED ARRAYS;108
8.3;6.3. MICROCONTACT DISPLACEMENT;112
8.4;6.4. SUPPORTED BILAYER MICROFLUIDICS;114
8.5;6.5. CREATION OF IMMUNOASSAYS;114
8.6;6.6. MULTIVALENT BINDING AS A FUNCTION OF LIGAND DENSITY;117
8.7;6.7. CONCLUSIONS AND FUTURE OUTLOOK;121
8.8;ACKNOWLEDGMENTS;121
8.9;REFERENCES;121
9;7 Aggregation of Amphiphiles as a Tool to Create Novel Functional Nano-Objects;126
9.1;7.1. INTRODUCTION;126
9.2;7.2. MOLECULAR ASSEMBLY;128
9.3;7.3. BLOCK COPOLYMER AMPHIPHILES;165
9.4;7.4. BIOHYBRID ASSEMBLIES;175
9.5;7.5. CONCLUSION;184
9.6;REFERENCES;185
10;8 Self-Assembly of Colloidal Building Blocks into Complex and Controllable Structures;193
10.1;8.1. INTRODUCTION;193
10.2;8.2. COLLOIDAL BUILDING BLOCKS;194
10.3;8.3. ASSEMBLY OF SPHERICAL COLLOIDS INTO WELL-DEFINED AGGREGATES;199
10.4;8.4. CRYSTALLIZATION OF SPHERICAL COLLOIDS;206
10.5;8.5. APPLICATIONS OF COLLOIDAL ASSEMBLIES;211
10.6;8.6. CONCLUDING REMARKS;215
10.7;ACKNOWLEDGMENT;218
10.8;REFERENCES;218
11;9 Self-Assembly and Nanostructured Materials;223
11.1;9.1. INTRODUCTION;223
11.2;9.2. WHY BUILD NANOSTRUCTURES?;228
11.3;9.3. WHY USE SELF-ASSEMBLY TO BUILD NANOSTRUCTURES?;230
11.4;9.4. WHAT ARE TARGETS FOR THE FIELD OF NANOSTRUCTURED MATERIALS BY SELF-ASSEMBLY?;232
11.5;9.5. OPPORTUNITIES, CHALLENGES, AND PROBLEMS;236
11.6;REFERENCES;238
12;Index;246