Describes hierarchical assemblies in biology and biological processes that occur at the nanoscale across membranes and at interfaces!

This book covers recurrent themes in nanocolloid science, including self-assembly, construction of supramolecular architecture, nanoconfinement and compartmentalization, measurement and control of interfacial forces, novel synthetic materials, and computer simulation.

Reviews surface forces apparatus measurements of two-dimensional organized ensembles at solid-liquid interfaces!

With more than 2600 references and over 550 equations, drawings, tables, photographs, and micrographs, Nano-Surface Chemistry

• discusses Langmuir-Blodgett films of varying organizational complexity
• considers the relationship of supramolecular layer assemblies to nanotechnology
• reveals the effect of solid nanometric deformation on the kinetics of wetting, dewetting, and capillary flow
• details scanning polarization force microscopy to study the nanostructure of liquid films and droplets
• presents a biomolecular system of glycoproteins derived from bacterial cell envelopes that spontaneously aggregate to form crystalline arrays in the mesoscopic range
• focuses on DNA nanoensembles condensed by polymer interactions and electrostatic forces for gene transfer
• gives examples of nanofabrication of cored colloidal particles and hollow capsules
• clarifies the use of reversed micelles as nanohosts for solvents, drugs, carriers, and reactors
• examines the change in transport properties of electrolytes confined in nanostructures
• and more!

Depicting a vast range of industrial and technological applications that stem from the new way scientists view molecular behavior, Nano-Surface Chemistry is a blue-ribbon reference for physical, surface, colloid, inorganic, organic, polymer, medicinal, and analytical chemists; chemical engineers; physicists and biophysicists; pharmaceutical scientists; materials scientists; biochemists; biophysicists; biotechnologists; biomaterials specialists; biologists; and graduate students in these disciplines.