Mechanical Self-Assembly: Science and Applications

✍ Scribed by Xi Chen, Jie Yin (auth.), Xi Chen (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 212
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Mechanical Self-Assembly: Science and Applications introduces a novel category of self-assembly driven by mechanical forces. This book discusses self-assembly in various types of small material structures including thin films, surfaces, and micro- and nano-wires, as well as the practice's potential application in micro and nanoelectronics, MEMS/NEMS, and biomedical engineering. The mechanical self-assembly process is inherently quick, simple, and cost-effective, as well as accessible to a large number of materials, such as curved surfaces for forming three-dimensional small structures. Mechanical self-assembly is complementary to, and sometimes offer advantages over, the traditional micro- and nano-fabrication.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Mechanical Self-Assembly in Nature....Pages 1-8
Mechanical Self-Assembly vs. Morphogenesis....Pages 9-23
Shaping by Active Deformation of Soft Elastic Sheets....Pages 25-46
Ion Beam-Induced Self-Assembled Wrinkles....Pages 47-67
A Kinetics Approach to Surface Wrinkling of Elastic Thin Films....Pages 69-109
Crease Instability on the Surface of a Solid....Pages 111-130
Buckling Delamination of Compressed Thin Films....Pages 131-152
Delaminated Film Buckling Microchannels....Pages 153-170
Mechanical Self-Assembly on Curved Substrates....Pages 171-199
Back Matter....Pages 201-206

✦ Subjects

Theoretical and Applied Mechanics;Nanotechnology;Surface and Interface Science, Thin Films;Biomedical Engineering