FUNCTIONAL POLYMER FILMS - VOLUME 1：PREPARATION AND PATTERNING VOLUME 2：CHARACTERIZATION AND APPLICATIONS

As opposed to the traditional field of polymer and resin-based coatings, this one-stop reference is the first to give readers a comprehensive view of the latest macromolecular and supramolecular film-based nanotechnology. Bringing together all the important facets in a coordinated manner, the two well-structured volumes cover film assembly and deposition, functionality and patterning, and analysis and characterization. The result is an in-depth understanding of the phenomena, scale effects, fabrication, and analysis of polymer ultrathin films.

Wolfgang Knoll is scientific executive director of the newly founded Austrian Institute of Technology. Previously, he was one of the Directors at the MPI for Polymer Research in Mainz, Germany. A biophysicist by training, he spent time at the IBM Almaden Research Center in California before his habilitation at the Technical University of Munich in 1986. From 1991 to 1999, he was Head of Laboratory for Exotic Nanomaterials hosted by the Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN) in Wako, Japan. In 1992, he was also appointed Consulting Professor at the Dept. of Chemical Engineering at Stanford University, California. He is the 2003 recipient of the Eugen and Inge Seibold Award. His current research interests include in particular structure-property relationships of polymeric and other organic systems in thin films and at functionalized surfaces.

Rigoberto Advincula is Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at the University of Houston, Texas. He obtained his chemistry degrees from the University of Florida (Ph.D.) and the University of the Philippines (B.S.). He has published some 300 papers, including 120 peer reviewed publications, and recently edited a book on Polymer Brushes (Wiley-VCH 2003). He currently serves on the Editorial Boards of the Chemistry of Materials, Macromolecules, and Polymer for Advance Technologies journals. He is recipient of the Arthur Doolittle Award (PMSE) and Research Excellence Award (UH).

Volume 1: Preparation and Patterning
Langmuir Monolayers at the Water/Air Interface
Langmuir/Blodgett/Kuhn Multilayer Assemblies
Layer-by-Layer Thin Films
Self-Assembled Monolayers and Multilayers
Layer-by-Layer Assemblies of Hybrid Materials
Polymer Brushes: Grafting From
Polymer Brushes: Grafting To
Grafted Hydrogels
Spin-Coated Films
Block Copolymer Films
Polymerized Electro-Polymerized Films
Plasma Deposition
PVD/CVD
OMBE
"Soft Landing"

Volume 2: Characterization and Applications
Bio-Functional Interfacial Architectures
Polymer Thin Films for Drug Delivery
Patterning by Photolithography
Nanopatterning of Thin Films by SPM
Block Copolymer Patterning and Lithography
Electronanopatterning of Conjugated Polymers
Electro-Optical Applications of Polymer Thin Films
Ellipsometry Techniques
Impedance Analysis
X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (XPS)
Nanostuctured Optical Waveguides for Thin Film Characterization
Biomimetic Thin Films as a QCM-D Sensor
Characterization with the Surface Force Apparatus (SFA)
Electrochemical-Surface Plasmon Resonance Methods
Scattering Techniques for Thin Polymer Films
Biomimetic Thin Films as a QCM-D Sensor Platform