About the Book
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Soft and bio-nanomaterials offer a tremendously rich behavior due to the diversity and tailorability of their structures. Built from polymers, nanoparticles, small and large molecules, peptoids and other nanoscale building blocks, such materials exhibit exciting functions, either intrinsically or through the engineering of their organization and combination of blocks. Thus, it is not surprising that a variety of challenges, for example, in energy storage, environment protection, advanced manufacturing, purification and healthcare, can be addressed using these materials. The recent advances in understanding the behavior of soft matter and biomaterials are being actively translated into functional materials systems and devices, which take advantages of newly discovered and specifically created morphologies with desired properties. This major reference work presents a detailed overview of recent research developments on fundamental and application-inspired aspects of soft and bio-nanomaterials and their emerging functions, and will be divided into four volumes: Vol 1: Soft Matter under Geometrical Confinement: From Fundamentals at Planar Surfaces and Interfaces to Functionalities of Nanoporous Materials; Vol 2: Polymers on the Nanoscale: Nano-structured Polymers and Their Applications; Vol 3: Bio-Inspired Nanomaterials: Nanomaterials Built from Biomolecules and Using Bio-derived Principles; Vol 4: Nanomedicine: Nanoscale Materials in Nano/Bio Medicine.
Table of Contents:
Volume 1: Soft Matter under Geometrical Confinement: From Fundamentals at Planar Surfaces and Interfaces to Functionalities of Nanoporous Materials (Patrick Huber): Slit Pore Confinement of Semiflexible Polymers — Interplay of Adsorption and Liquid-Crystalline Order (Kurt Binder, Sergei A Egorov and Andrey Milchev); Probing Structures, Forces, and Dynamics of SoftMatter in Nanometer Confinement Using MultipleBeam Interferometry (Laura L E Mears and Markus Valtiner); Polymers at Planar Surfaces and Interfaces (Thomas F Keller); Studies of Surface and Interface Dynamics by X-Ray Photon Correlation Spectroscopy (Anders Madsen and Hyunjung Kim); Ionic Liquid Multilayers on Electrode Surfaces: Influence of Electrode Potential and Solutes (Frank Endres); Liquid Crystals at Interfaces and Under Flow: Recent Advances and Trends (Anupam Sengupta and Marco G Mazza); Thermodynamic Fingerprints of Nanoporous Materials on the Fluids Confined in Their Pores (Gennady Y Gor, Christopher D Dobrzanski and Alina Emelianova); Elasticity and Phase Behaviour of Fluids in Nanoporous Media (Klaus Schappert and Rolf Pelster); Effects of Polymer Confinement in AAO Nanocavities on the Microstructure and Properties of Polymer Materials (Jaime Martin, Rebeca Hernánde and Carmen Mijangos); Molecular Dynamics in Confinement Probed by Neutron Scattering Methods (Denis Morineau); Liquid Crystals Confined in Nanoporous Solids: From Fundamentals to Functionalities of IntegratedMaterial Systems (Patrick Huber, Kathrin Sentker, Mark Busch and Andriy V Kityk); Nanostructured Energy Materials: From Organic Photovoltaic to Hybrid Thermoelectrics (Tommy Hofmann); Volume 2: Polymers on the Nanoscale: Nano-structured Polymers and Their Applications (Alamgir Karim and Irina Zvonkina) Mechanical Properties of Active Biopolymer Networks (Brian Gentry, Sandy Suei, José Alvarado, Laurent Kreplak and Gijsje H Koenderink); Biopolymer Nanocomposites and Their Applications (B Zewde, O Atoyebi, I J Zvonkina, T Thomspon, A Hargrove, A Scott and D Raghavan); Giant Molecules: A Unique and Efficient Soft Matter Platform to Construct Diverse Supramolecular Nanostructures (Xueyan Feng, Zhiwei Lin, Wei Zhang, Xue-Hui Dong and Stephen Z D Cheng); Functional Mesoporous Polymer Composites and Their Applications: A Review (Moustafa M Zagho, Kholoud E Albinali and Ahmed A Elzatahry); Nanoscale Adsorbed Polymer Chains: A Robust Model for Tailoring Properties of Polymer Thin Films and Polymer Nanocomposites (Tadanori Koga, Maya K Endoha and Naisheng Jiang); Thermodynamics, Morphology, and Mechanisms Relevant to P3HT:PCBM Organic Photovoltaic Blend Film Properties and Devices (Abul F Huq, Ali Ammar, Irina Zvonkina and Alamgir Karim); Controlled Architecture of Electrospun Nanofibers and Their Applications (Akash Nathani, Poonam Rani and Chandra S Sharma); Natural and Synthetic Routes to Structural Color (Irina J Zvonkina, Asritha Nallapaneni, Abul Huq and Alamgir Karim); Directed Self-assembly of Block Copolymers with Dynamic Thermal Gradients (Maninderjeet Singh, Monali Basutkar, Saumil Samant, Gurpreet Singh and Alamgir Karim); Molecular Design of Polyesters with Controlled Hydrolytic Stability (Irina J Zvonkina and Mark D Soucek); Volume 3: Bio-Inspired Nanomaterials: Nanomaterials Built from Biomolecules and Using Bio-derived Principles (Seung-Wuk Lee): Introduction (Seung-Wuk Lee); Bio-Inspired Nanomaterials (Priya Bhattacharjee and Seung-Wuk Lee); DNA Nanomaterials (Priya Bhattacharjee and Seung-Wuk Lee); Self-assembling Peptide-based Nanomaterials (Shuguang Zhang); Peptoid Nanomaterials (Daniel J Murray, Blakely W Tresca and Ronald N Zuckermann); Polypeptide Nanomaterials (Jessica R Kramer and Timothy J Deming); Targeting Disease-Related Proteins via Secondary Protein Structure Formation (Hendra Wahyudi, Boi Hoa San and S Michael Yu); Protein-based Polymer Nanoparticle Composites (Eddie Wang and Seung-Wuk Lee); Bio-inspired Water Structure: Intermediate Water in Hydrated Biopolymers and Synthetic Bio-compatible Polymers (Masaru Tanaka); Catechology: The Study of Mussel- and Insect-inspired Adhesion, Coating, and Chemoselective Reaction (Sang Hyeon Hong, In Taek Song, Eunsook Park, Mikyung Shin and Haeshin Lee); Piezoelectric Biomaterials (Ju Hyuck Lee and Seung-Wuk Lee); Bio-inspired Electronic Nose (Justyn Jaworski); Bio-inspired Fabrication of Electronic Devices (Ichiro Yamashita); Volume 4: Nanomedicine: Nanoscale Materials in Nano/Bio Medicine (Jin-Woo Kim, D Keith Roper & Wen J Li): Nanoscale Particles and Multifunctional Hybrid Soft Nanomaterials in Bio/Nanomedicine (Arvind Sinha, Joshua Sakon, D Keith Roper, Wen J Li, Anindya Ghosh, Haewook Han, Vladimir P Zharov and Jin-Woo Kim); Nanodiamonds and Their Applications in Drug Delivery and Bioimaging (Mengjie Gu, Tan Boon Toh, and Edward Kai-Hua Chow); Engineering Cell–Graphene Interface for Controlling Stem Cell Behaviour (Sunho Park, Hoon Seonwoo, Ki-Taek Lim,Yonghyun Gwon, Daun Kim, Woochan Kim, Sujin Kim, Jong Hoon Chung and Jangho Kim); Optical Stimulation of Nanoparticles Using Ionizing Radiation for Cancer Therapy (Nabil A Siddiqui and Nalinikanth Kotagiri); Soft Matter Embedded with Nanoantennae: Predicting Rates of Spectrothermal Dissipation (D Keith Roper); Polymer-Coated Gold Nanostructures for Controlled Release Drug Delivery (Jingyi Chen, Tengjiao Wang, Daniel Meeker and Mark Smeltzer); Cell-Derived Biomimetic Nanostructures for Biomedical Applications (Indulekha Singaravelu, Nalinikanth Kotagiri and Jin-Woo Kim); Specific Delivery of SiRNA to Tumor Cells via Innovative pRNA Nanoparticles: A Novel Promising Cancer Treatment Strategy (Yi Xu, Hongzhi Wang, Dan Shu, Peixuan Guoand Steven Qian); Exosomes as Naturally Occurring, Abundant Nanoscale Soft Materials: Potential as Biomarkers and Delivery Vehicles for Solving Biomedical Problems (Rabab N Hamzah, Rajshekar A Kore, Karrer M Alghazali, Fumiya Watanabe, Alexandru S Biris and Robert J Griffin); Soft Bio-Integrated Electronics Enabled by Electronic Nanomembranes (Matthew P Haney, Raza Qazi, Prerit Oberai and Jae-Woong Jeong); Nanomaterials for Flexible Arterial Pulse Sensors (Qi-Jun Sun, Chi-Chung Yeung, Ho-Yin Chan, Wen Jung Li and Arul Lenus Roy Vellaisamy); Cues from the Nanoenvironment: The Role of Nanomaterials in Stem Cell Differentiation and Stem Cell Tissue Engineering (Jeffrey C Henson, Hanna Jensen, Kartik Balachandran, Raj Rao, Jin-Woo Kim and Morten Jensen);
