Water Droplets to Nonotechnology: A Journey Through Self-Assembly

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ISBN: 9781849736640
Author/Editor: Plinio Innocenzi

Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry

Year: 2013

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The ability of nanostructures to organize into complex arrangements leads to unique materials with valuable applications. Self-assembly is therefore a key concept for nanotechnology, but it can be quite a complex and difficult subject to approach. Water Droplets to Nanotechnology gives a simple and general overview of the different self-assembly processes which are at the basis of recent developments in nanotechnology.

The book shows how simple phenomenon from everyday examples can become sophisticated tools for self-assembly and the fabrication of nanomaterials. By exploring the coffee stain and tears of wine phenomena, the first part looks at how the evaporation of a droplet of colloidal solution can be used in designing organized structures. This leads onto more complex systems such as templated porous materials, photonic crystals, colloidal nanocrystals and quasi-crystals through to bottom-up systems for designing hierarchal materials.

By taking the reader on a journey from everyday life to the secrets of nanotechnology, the book is suitable for a non-specialist audience interested in self-assembly as well as the wider perspectives and latest developments of nanoscience.

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Weight 0.45 kg

Product Properties

Year of Publication

2013

Table of Contents

The Coffee Stain: Using a Water Droplet for Self-assembly; The Tears of Wine. The Marangoni Effect, a Fluid Phenomenon for Self-Assembly and Organization; The Lord of the Rings: Stick and Slip Motions and Self-Assembly During Coffee-Stain Formation; Convective Self-Assembly (CSA); Using Breath for Nanotechnology; Nanomaterials with Light Shaping Capabilities: Photonic Crystals; Superlattices and Quasicrystals; Shaping and Ordering the Porosity Through Self-assembly; Towards the Complex Organization of Matter: Hierarchical Porosity;

Author

Plinio Innocenzi

ISBN/ISSN

9781849736640

Binding

Hardback

Edition

1

Publisher

Royal Society of Chemistry

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