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Nanostructured Soft Matter

Experiment, Theory, Simulation and Perspectives

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  • © 2007

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Editors:
  1. Andrei V. Zvelindovsky

    1. University of Central Lancaster, Preston, UK

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  • An interdisciplinary view on a new and broad class of materials under the unified name of “nanostructured soft matter”
  • Offers the first description of the freeware SUSHI

Part of the book series: NanoScience and Technology (NANO)

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Table of contents (19 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XII
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  2. Experimental Advances

    1. Microemulsion Templating

      • Wiebke F. C. Sager
      Pages 3-44

    2. Nanofabrication of Block Copolymer Bulk and Thin Films: Microdomain Structures as Templates

      • Takeji Hashimoto, Kenji Fukunaga
      Pages 45-97

    3. Characterization of Surfactant Water Systems by X-Ray Scattering and 2H NMR

      • Michael C. Holmes
      Pages 99-128

    4. Polyelectrolyte Diblock Copolymer Micelles: Small Angle Scattering Estimates of the Charge Ordering in the Coronal Layer

      • Johan R. C. van der Maarel
      Pages 129-158

    5. Structure and Shear-Induced Order in Blends of a Diblock Copolymer with the Corresponding Homopolyme

      • Ian W Hamley, Valeria Castelletto, Zhou Yang
      Pages 159-170

    6. Electric Field Alignment of Diblock Copolymer Thin Films

      • Ting Xu, Jiayu Wang, Thomas P. Russel
      Pages 171-198

    7. Control of Block Copolymer Microdomain Orientation from Solution using Electric Fields: Governing Parameters and Mechanisms

      • Alexander Böker
      Pages 199-229

    8. Structure and Dynamics of Cylinder Forming Block Copolymers in Thin Films

      • Larisa A. Tsarkova
      Pages 231-265

  3. Mathematical and Theoretical Approaches

    1. Mathematical Description of Nanostructures with Minkowski Functionals

      • G. J. Agur Sevink
      Pages 269-299

    2. Scaling Theory of Polyelectrolyte and Polyampholyte Micelles

      • Nadezhda P. Shusharina, Michael Rubinstein
      Pages 301-326

    3. The Latest Development of the Weak Segregation Theory of Microphase Separation In Block Copolymers

      • Igor Erukhimovich
      Pages 327-370

    4. Coarse-Grained Modeling of Mesophase Dynamics in Block Copolymers

      • Zhi-Feng Huang, Jorge Viñnals
      Pages 371-393

    5. Effective Interactions in Soft Materials

      • Alan R. Denton
      Pages 395-433
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“The scientist does not study nature because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it, and he delights in it because it is beautiful. If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living. ” Henri Poincar´ e (1854 - 1912) The ancient Greeks, quite ingeniously, realised that all materials and their (now known as macroscopic) properties, including life itself, are due to a limited number of tiny, constantly moving building blocks and the conn- tions (now called interactions) between these blocks. Receiving both scienti?c and non-scienti?c opposition, the idea faded and, despite some renaissance of atomistic ideas in the 17-19th centuries, it still took more than two thousand years, until the time of Einstein, for the idea of microscopic building blocks to be fully accepted. These ideas, begun during the golden age of physics in the 20thcentury,haveledtoacomprehensiveunderstandingofsuchstatesofm- ter as gases and solids, which in turn have completely revolutionised everyday life in the developed world by introducing technological wonders such as m- ern cars, air tra?c, semiconductor chips for computers and nuclear power. Another state of matter, ?uids, appeared to be much more di?cult to tackle, even in the case of simple liquids like liquid argon, a research favourite in the ?eld. Legend tells that Lev D.

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  • University of Central Lancaster, Preston, UK

    Andrei V. Zvelindovsky

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