Nanostructured soft matter : experiments, theory, simulation and perspectives / A.V. Zvelindovsky (ed.).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Zvelindovsky, A. V.

Series:

Nanoscience and technology 1434-4904

Nanoscience and technology, 1434-4904

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nanostructured materials.

Soft condensed matter.

Physical Description:

xii, 628 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Dordrecht, The Netherlands : Springer ; Bristol, UK : In association with Canopus Publishing Limited, [2007]

Summary:

This book provides an interdisciplinary overview of a new and broad class of materials under the unifying name Nanostructured Soft Matter. It covers materials ranging from short amphiphilic molecules to block copolymers, proteins, colloids and their composites, micro emulsions and bio-inspired systems such as vesicles. The book considers several fundamental questions, including: how self-assembly of various soft materials with internal structure at the nanoscale can be understood, controlled and in future used in the newly emerging field of soft nanotechnology. The book offers readers a view on the subject from different perspectives, combining modern experimental approaches from physical chemistry and physics with various theoretical techniques from physics, mathematics and the most advanced computer modelling. It is the first book of this sort in the field. All chapters are written by leading international experts, bringing together experience from Canada, Germany, Great Britain, Japan, the Netherlands, Russia, Singapore, Spain and the USA. The book is oriented towards active researchers as well as undergraduate and graduate students.

Contents:

Part I Experimental Advances

Microemulsion Templating / W. F. C. Sager 3

Nanofabrication of Block Copolymer Bulk and Thin Films: Microdomain Structures as Templates / Takeji Hashimoto, Kenji Fukunaga 45

Characterization of Surfactant Water Systems by X-Ray Scattering and [superscript 2]H NMR / Michael C. Holmes 99

Polyelectrolyte Diblock Copolymer Micelles: Small Angle Scattering Estimates of the Charge Ordering in the Coronal Layer / Johan R. C. van der Maarel 129

Structure and Shear-Induced Order in Blends of a Diblock Copolymer with the Corresponding Homopolymers / I. W. Hamley, V. Castelletto, Z. Yang 159

Electric Field Alignment of Diblock Copolymer Thin Films / T. Xu, J. Wang, T. P. Russell 171

Control of Block Copolymer Microdomain Orientation from Solution using Electric Fields: Governing Parameters and Mechanisms / Alexander Boker 199

Structure and Dynamics of Cylinder Forming Block Copolymers in Thin Films / Larisa Tsarkova 231

Part II Mathematical and Theoretical Approaches

Mathematical Description of Nanostructures with Minkowski Functionals / G.J.A. Sevink 269

Scaling Theory of Polyelectrolyte and Polyarapholyte Micelles / Nadezhda P. Shusharina, Michael Rubinstein 301

The Latest Development of the Weak Segregation Theory of Microphase Separation In Block Copolymers / I. Ya. Erukhimovich 327

Coarse-Grained Modeling of Mesophase Dynamics in Block Copolymers / Zhi-Feng Huang, Jorge Vinals 371

Effective Interactions in Soft Materials / Alan R. Denton 395

Part III Computer Simulations

Ab-initio Coarse-Graining of Entangled Polymer Systems / J.T. Padding, W.J. Briels 437

Computer Simulations of Nano-Scale Phenomena Based on the Dynamic Density Functional Theories: Applications of SUSHI in the OCTA System / Takashi Honda, Toshihiro Kawakatsu 461

Monte Carlo Simulations of Nano-Confined Block Copolymers / Qiang Wang 495

Understanding Vesicles and Bio-Inspired Systems with Dissipative Particle Dynamics / Julian C. Shillcock 529

Theoretical Study of Nanostructured Biopolymers Using Molecular Dynamics Sinmlations: A Practical Introduction / Danilo Roccatano 555

Understanding Liquid/Colloids Composites with Mesosco Simulations / Ignacio Pagonabarraga 587.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781402063299

1402063296

OCLC:

154712166