Book description
A comprehensive look at the latest advances in soft material gradients
Tremendous progress has been made in the field of surface-bound soft
material gradients in recent years, with intriguing new areas of
investigation opening up and advances in bioanalytics changing the way
high-throughput screening methods are used in the design and discovery
of catalysts and new materials.
This volume provides the first complete, up-to-date summary of the
progress in this field, showing readers how to harness the powerful
properties of soft matter gradients in the design and development of
modern functional materials.
Contributed chapters from experts in diverse fields help bridge areas
of materials science, chemistry, and biomaterials, covering
fabrication techniques, gradients in self-assembled monolayers,
polymer gradients, dynamic gradient structures, structure and
assembly, mechanical properties, sensors, biomaterial applications,
protein adsorption, and organization of cells on gradient surfaces.
Readers will learn how to implement the techniques described in the
book in their own work, while improving efficacy and lowering research
and production costs. Soft Matter Gradient Surfaces is an
invaluable resource for chemists, physicists, biologists, and
engineers, and anyone who would like to take advantage of these unique
soft matter building blocks.
Jan Genzer is a professor of chemical and
biomolecular engineering at North Carolina State University. His
research interests include material self-assembly and directed
assembly and behavior of polymers at surfaces, interfaces, and in
confined geometrics using experimental methods and computational
approaches.
