Book description
Very thin film materials have emerged as a highly interesting and
useful quasi 2D-state functionality. They have given rise to numerous
applications ranging from protective and smart coatings to electronics,
sensors and display technology as well as serving biological, analytical
and medical purposes. The tailoring of polymer film properties and
functions has become a major research field.
As opposed to the traditional treatise on 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
and state-of-the-art research, the two well-structured volumes cover
film assembly and depostion, functionality and patterning, and analysis
and characterization. The result is an in-depth understanding of the
phenomena, ordering, scale effects, fabrication, and analysis of polymer
ultrathin films.
This book will be a valuable addition for Materials Scientists, Polymer
Chemists, Surface Scientists, Bioengineers, Coatings Specialists,
Chemical Engineers, and Scientists working in this important research
field and industry. 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 of the German Science Foundation, receivedthe 2008 Exner
Medal of the Austrian Trade Association and was elected in 2010 as a
regular member to the Austrian Academy of Sciences.
. 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
Department of 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
380 papers, including 155 peer-reviewed publications, 11 patents (and
pending), and has co-edited the book on Polymer Brushes (Wiley-VCH
2005). He currently serves as Editor of Reactive and Functional Polymers
and is on the Editorial Boards of Chemistry of Materials, ACS-Applied
Materials and Interfaces, Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics,
Macromolecular Rapid Communications, Macromolecular Research, Journal of
Bioactive and Compatible Polymers, and Polymer for Advance Technologies
journals. He is a Fellow of the American Chemical Society (ACS), and
also a Fellow of both the Polymer Materials Science and Engineering
(PMSE) and the Polymer Chemistry Divisions of the ACS.
