Water droplets to nanotechnology : a journey through self-assembly /

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Innocenzi, Plinio (Author), Malfatti, Luca, 1977- (Author), Falcaro, Paolo (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, UK : Royal Society of Chemistry, [2013]
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • The coffee stain : using a water droplet for self-assembly
  • The tears of wine : the Marangoni effect, a fluid phenomenon for self-assembly and organization
  • The Lord of the Rings : stick and slip motions and self-assembly during coffee-stain formation
  • Convective self-assembly (CSA)
  • Using breath for nanotechnology
  • Nanomaterials with light shaping capabilities : photonic crystals
  • Superlattices and quasicrystals
  • Shaping and ordering the porosity through self-assembly
  • Towards the complex organization of matter : hierarchical porosity.