Book description
New micro and nanopatterning technologies have been developed in the
last years as less costly and more flexible alternatives to
phtolithograpic processing. These technologies have not only impacted on
recent developments in microelectronics, but also in emerging fields
such as disposable biosensors, scaffolds for tissue engineering,
non-biofouling coatings, high adherence devices, or photonic structures
for the visible spectrum. This handbook presents the current processing
methods suitable for the fabrication of micro- and nanostructured
surfaces made out of polymeric materials. It covers the steps and
materials involved, the resulting structures, and is rounded off by a
part on applications. As a result, chemists, material scientists, and
physicists gain a critical understanding of this topic at an early stage
of its development. Aranzazu del Campo is Minerva Fellow at the
Max-Planck-Institut fur Polymerforschung (Mainz, Germany) and heads the
independent research group ?Active Surfaces and Materials?. She received
her PhD in Chemistry from the Instituto de Ciencia y Tecnologia de
Polimeros (Madrid, Spain) in 2000. She then joined the
Max-Planck-Institut fur Polymerforschung as Marie Curie Fellow to work
in the field of surface chemistry and nanotechnology. After a short stay
at the Universita degli Studi di Urbino (Italy), she became Research
Group Leader at the Max-Planck-Institut fur Metallforschung in 2005
(Stuttgart, Germany) and at the Leibniz Institute for New Materials
(Saarbrucken, Germany) in 2008.
Eduard Arzt is Scientific Director and Chairman at INM ? Leibniz
Institute for New Materials in Saarbrucken and holds the Chair for New
Materials at Saarland University. He obtained his PhD in Physics and
Mathematics from the University of Vienna, Austria, in 1980. After a
postdoctoral stay at the University of Cambridge, he led a research
group at the Max Planck Institute for Metals Research in Stuttgart. From
1990 to 2007, he was a Director at the Max Planck Institute for Metals
Research, Stuttgart, and Professor for Metal Physics at the University
of Stuttgart. He has been Visiting Professor at Stanford University and
Massachusetts Institute of Technology and maintains strong links to the
international materials community.
