Advanced Materials Interfaces [Hardcover]

Advanced Material?Interfaces?is a state-of-the-art look at innovative methodologies and strategies adopted for interfaces and their applications. The 13 chapters are written by eminent researchers not only elaborate complex interfaces fashioned of solids, liquids, and gases, but also ensures cross-disciplinary mixture and blends of physics, chemistry, materials science, engineering and life sciences. Advanced interfaces operate fundamental roles in essentially all integrated devices. It is therefore of the utmost urgency to focus on how newly-discovered fundamental constituents and interfacial progressions can be materialized and used for precise purposes. Interfaces are associated in wide multiplicity of application spectrum from chemical catalysis to drug functions and the advancement is funnelled by fine-tuning of our fundamental understanding of the interface effects.

Preface xv

Part 1 Interfaces Design, fabrication, and properties

1 Mixed Protein/Polymer Nanostructures at Interfaces 3
Aristeidis Papagiannopoulos and Stergios Pispas

1.1 Introduction 3

1.2 Neutral and Charged Macromolecules at Interfaces 4

1.3 Interfacial Experimental Methods 7

1.4 Interactions of Proteins with Polymer-Free Interfaces 9

1.5 Polymers and Proteins in Solution 11

1.6 Proteins at Polymer-Modified Interfaces 14

1.6.1 Steric Effects 15

1.6.2 Polyelectrolyte Multilayers: Electrostatic Nature of Interactions 21

1.6.3 Counterion Release: Charge Anisotropy 23

1.7 Protein-Loaded Interfaces with Potential for Applications 26

1.8 Conclusions 30

References 30

2 Exploitation of Self-Assembly Pl“Ý