edited by Morton Rosoff

Describes hierarchical assemblies in biology and biological processes that occur at the nanoscale across membranes and at interfaces!

This book covers recurrent themes in nanocolloid science, including self-assembly, construction of supramolecular architecture, nanoconfinement and compartmentalization, measurement and control of interfacial forces, novel synthetic materials, and computer simulation.

Reviews surface forces apparatus measurements of two-dimensional organized ensembles at solid–liquid interfaces! With more than 2600 references and over 550 equations, drawings, tables, photographs, and micrographs, Nano-Surface Chemistry:

• discusses Langmuir–Blodgett films of varying organizational complexity
• considers the relationship of supramolecular layer assemblies to nanotechnology
• reveals the effect of solid nanometric deformation on the kinetics of wetting, dewetting, and capillary flow
• details scanning polarization force microscopy to study the nanostructure of liquid films and droplets
• presents a biomolecular system of glycoproteins derived from bacterial cell envelopes that spontaneously aggregate to form crystalline arrays in the mesoscopic range
• focuses on DNA nanoensembles condensed by polymer interactions and electrostatic forces for gene transfer
• gives examples of nanofabrication of cored colloidal particles and hollow capsules
• clarifies the use of reversed micelles as nanohosts for solvents, drugs, carriers, and reactors
• examines the change in transport properties of electrolytes confined in nanostructures
• and much more!

Depicting a vast range of industrial and technological applications that stem from the new way scientists view molecular behavior, Nano-Surface Chemistry is a blue-ribbon reference for physical, surface, colloid, inorganic, organic, polymer, medicinal, and analytical chemists; chemical engineers; physicists and biophysicists; pharmaceutical scientists; materials scientists; biochemists; biophysicists; biotechnologists; biomaterials specialists; biologists; and graduate students in these disciplines.

Contents

1. Molecular Architectures at Solid–Liquid Interfaces Studied by Surface Forces Measurement
2. Adhesion on the Nanoscale
3. Langmuir Monolayers: Fundamentals and Relevance to Nanotechnology
4. Supramolecular Organic Layer Engineering for Industrial Nanotechnology
5. Mono- and Multilayers of Spherical Polymer Particles Prepared by Langmuir—Blodgett and Self-Assembly Techniques
6. Studies of Wetting and Capillary Phenomena at Nanometer Scale with Scanning Polarization Force Microscopy
7. Nanometric Solid Deformation of Soft Materials in Capillary Phenomena
8. Two-Dimensional and Three-Dimensional Superlattices: Syntheses and Collective Physical Properties
9. Molecular Nanotechnology and Nanobiotechnology with Two-Dimensional Protein Crystals (S-Layers)
10. DNA as a Material for Nanobiotechnology
11. Self-Assembled DNA/Polymer Complexes
12. Supramolecular Assemblies Made of Biological Macromolecules
13. Reversed Micelles as Nanometer-Size Solvent Media
14. Engineering of Core-Shell Particles and Hollow Capsules
15. Electro-Transport in Hydrophilic Nanostructured Materials
16. Electrolytes in Nanostructures
17. Polymer–Clay Nanocomposites: Synthesis and Properties

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