Mechanical Self-Assembly || Shaping by Active Deformation of Soft Elastic Sheets
✍ Scribed by Chen, Xi
- Book ID
- 120411937
- Publisher
- Springer New York
- Year
- 2012
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 465 KB
- Edition
- 2013
- Category
- Article
- ISBN
- 1461445620
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✦ 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.