Nanoscale Assembly (eBook)

Chemical Techniques

Wilhelm T.S. Huck (Herausgeber)

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2006 | 2005
VII, 244 Seiten
Springer US (Verlag)
978-0-387-25656-6 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

Inhalt

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

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 11.7.2006
• Reihe/Serie: Nanostructure Science and Technology
• Reihe/Serie: Nanostructure Science and Technology
• Zusatzinfo: VII, 244 p.
• Verlagsort: New York
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Chemie ► Anorganische Chemie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Chemie ► Physikalische Chemie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geologie
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Maschinenbau
• Schlagworte: Design • Electronics • nanostructure • nanotechnology • organization • Science • Technologie • Technology • Transport
• ISBN-10: 0-387-25656-3 / 0387256563
• ISBN-13: 978-0-387-25656-6 / 9780387256566