Nanoscale Assembly: Chemical Techniques

✍ Scribed by Ullrich Steiner (auth.), Wilhelm T. S. Huck (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 249
• Series: Nanostructure Science and Technology
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Recent advances have pushed the limits of lithography firmly into the sub-100 nm domain, with smallest feature sizes around 10 nm. However, compared to living organisms, devices fabricated using nanolithography are not nearly as complex, as they are essentially 2D and contain only a limited number of chemical elements. For centuries, Nature has been a major inspiration for science. First of all to learn how Life functions at cellular level, but increasingly, as a blueprint for designing non-natural devices where the building blocks and their assembly are inspired by biological examples. The key tool in translating these examples into the domain of engineering, has been self-assembly or self-organization. This book gathers a spectrum researchers who have not only furthered our knowledge of self-assembly using small molecules, polymers and colloidal particles as building blocks, but who have also shown it to be a practical tool in the assembly of an astonishing variety of devices, ranging from molecular electronics to biosensors.

✦ Table of Contents

Structure Formation in Polymer Films From Micrometer to the sub-100 nm Length Scales ....Pages 1-24
Functional Nanostructured Polymers Incorporation of Nanometer Level Control in Device Design ....Pages 25-42
Electronic Transport through Self-Assembled Monolayers....Pages 43-64
Nanostructured Hydrogen-Bonded Rosette Assemblies Self-Assembly and Self-Organization ....Pages 65-78
Self-Assembled Molecular Electronics....Pages 79-98
Multivalent Ligand-Receptor Interactions on Planar Supported Membranes An On-Chip Approach ....Pages 99-117
Aggregation of Amphiphiles as a Tool to Create Novel Functional Nano-Objects....Pages 119-185
Self-Assembly of Colloidal Building Blocks into Complex and Controllable Structures....Pages 187-216
Self-Assembly and Nanostructured Materials....Pages 217-239

✦ Subjects

Nanotechnology;Inorganic Chemistry;Physical Chemistry;Geochemistry