Nanostructured Soft Matter

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

4. Computer Simulations

   1. Ab-initio Coarse-Graining of Entangled Polymer Systems

      • Johan T. Padding, Wim J. Briels

      Pages 437-460

   2. Computer Simulations of Nano-Scale Phenomena Based on the Dynamic Density Functional Theories: Applications of SUSHI in the OCTA System

      • Takashi Honda, Toshihiro Kawakatsu

      Pages 461-493

   3. Monte Carlo Simulations of Nano-Confined Block Copolymers

      • Qiang Wang

      Pages 495-527

   4. Understanding Vesicles and Bio-Inspired Systems with Dissipative Particle Dynamics

      • Julian C. Shillcock

      Pages 529-554

   5. Theoretical Study of Nanostructured Biopolymers Using Molecular Dynamics Simulations: A Practical Introduction

      • Danilo Roccatano

      Pages 555-585

   6. Understanding Liquid/Colloids Composites with Mesoscopic Simulations

      • Ignacio Pagonabarraga

      Pages 587-615

“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.

• Copolymer
• Helium-Atom-Streuung
• biopolymers
• colloid
• computer
• dynamics
• modeling
• molecular dynamics
• nanostructure
• nanotechnology
• polymer
• scattering
• simulation
• soft matter
• thin films

• University of Central Lancaster, Preston, UK

  Andrei V. Zvelindovsky

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