Self-Assembly and Nanotechnology A Force Balance Approach

This conceptual book delivers comprehensive coverage of key subjects in self-assembly nanotechnology. It provides clear schematic illustrations to represent the mainstream principles behind each topic. The author chose his data and information very selectively. This feature will make this book an indispensable tool in bridging topics in nanotechnology including self-assembly, colloids, and surfaces. The book can also be used as a part of the teaching materials when the courses are the joint-efforts across different disciplines or different departments, which are to cover a broader range of nanotechnology. Joint-course becomes increasingly popular these days; in fact, it is an effective teaching scheme especially for nanotechnology. At the same time, this book is intended for industrial professionals. Its whole scope is networked with one stem of concept: force balance. This is to show that a good deal of the related topics in self-assembly and nanotechnology can be approached with one unified concept, once we expand our view on self-assembly. This second feature could provide some useful insights for their professional researches, especially when they try to understand the seemingly complex self-assembly phenomena behind the nanotechnology issues. Considering inter- and multi-disciplinary natures of nanotechnology, this book should be friendly reading not just for chemistry majors, but for those in chemical engineering, physics, and materials science as well.

Yoon S. Lee, PhD, is a Scientific Information Analyst at Chemical Abstracts Service (a division of the ACS) where he indexes literature and builds databases for nanoscience and nanotechnology, specifically in the area of colloid and surface chemistry. After earning his PhD from Seoul National University in South Korea, Dr. Lee performed postdoctoral research at The Ohio State University and worked as a research chemist at Cognis. He has authored several articles on self-assembly and nanotechnology.