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Teaching (Nano)Materials |
Learning (Nano)Materials |
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Acknowledgements |
Nanofood for Thought - Thinking about Nanochemistry, Nanoscience, Nanotechnology and Nanosafety |
Nanochemistry Basics / Chapter 1: |
Materials Self-Assembly / 1.1: |
Big Bang to the Universe / 1.2: |
Why Nano? / 1.3: |
What do we Mean by Large and Small Nanomaterials? / 1.4: |
Do it Yourself Quantum Mechanics / 1.5: |
What is Nanochemistry? / 1.6: |
Molecular vs. Materials Self-Assembly / 1.7: |
What is Hierarchical Assembly? / 1.8: |
Directing Self-Assembly / 1.9: |
Supramolecular Vision / 1.10: |
Geneology of Self-Assembling Materials / 1.11: |
Unlocking the Key to Porous Solids / 1.12: |
Learning from Biominerals - Form is Function / 1.13: |
Can you Curve a Crystal? / 1.14: |
Patterns, Patterns Everywhere / 1.15: |
Synthetic Creations with Natural Form / 1.16: |
Two-Dimensional Assemblies / 1.17: |
SAMs and Soft Lithography / 1.18: |
Clever Clusters / 1.19: |
Extending the Prospects of Nanowires / 1.20: |
Coercing Colloids / 1.21: |
Mesoscale Self-Assembly / 1.22: |
Materials Self-Assembly of Integrated Systems / 1.23: |
References / 1.24: |
Nanofood for Thought - Nanochemistry, Genealogy Materials Self-Assembly, Length Scales |
Chemical Patterning and Lithography / Chapter 2: |
Soft Lithography / 2.1: |
What are Self-Assembled Monolayers? / 2.2: |
The Science and Art of Soft Lithography / 2.3: |
Patterning Wettability? / 2.4: |
Condensation Figures / 2.5: |
Microlens Arrays / 2.6: |
Nanoring Arrays / 2.7: |
Patterning the Solid State / 2.8: |
Primed for Printing Polymers / 2.9: |
Beyond Molecules - Transfer Printing of Thin Films / 2.10: |
Electrically Contacting SAMS / 2.11: |
SAM Crystal Engineering / 2.12: |
Learning from Nature's Biocrystal Engineering / 2.13: |
Colloidal Microsphere Patterns / 2.14: |
Switching SAM Function / 2.15: |
Patterning by Photocatalysis / 2.16: |
Reversibly Switching SAMs / 2.17: |
Electrowettability Switch / 2.18: |
Sweet Chips / 2.19: |
All Fall Down in a Row Lithography / 2.20: |
Nanofood for Thought - Soft Lithography, SAMs, Patterning / 2.21: |
Layer-by-Layer Self-Assembly / Chapter 3: |
Building One Layer at a Time / 3.1: |
Electrostatic Superlattices / 3.2: |
Organic Polyelectrolyte Multilayers / 3.3: |
Layer-by-Layer Smart Windows / 3.4: |
How Thick is Thin? / 3.5: |
Assembling Metallopolymers / 3.6: |
Directly Imaging Polyelectrolyte Multilayers / 3.7: |
Polyelectrolyte-Colloid Multilayers / 3.8: |
Graded Composition LbL Films / 3.9: |
LbL MEMS / 3.10: |
Trapping Active Proteins / 3.11: |
Layering on Curved Surfaces / 3.12: |
Crystal Engineering of Oriented Zeolite Film / 3.13: |
Zeolite-Ordered Multicrystal Arrays / 3.14: |
Crosslinked Crystal Arrays / 3.15: |
Layering with Topological Complexity / 3.16: |
Patterned Multilayers / 3.17: |
Non-Electrostatic Layer-by-Layer Assembly / 3.18: |
Low Pressure Layers / 3.19: |
Layer-by-Layer Self-Limiting Reactions / 3.20: |
Nanofood for Thought - Designer Monolayers, Multilayers, Materials Flatland / 3.21: |
Nanocontact Printing and Writing - Stamps and Tips / Chapter 4: |
Sub-100 nm Soft Lithography / 4.1: |
Extending Microcontact Printing / 4.2: |
Putting on the Pressure / 4.3: |
Defect Patterning - Topologically Directed Etching / 4.4: |
Below 50 nm Nanocontact Printing / 4.5: |
Nanocontact Writing - Dip Pen Nanolithography / 4.6: |
DPN of Silicon / 4.7: |
DPN on Glass / 4.8: |
Nanoscale Writing on Seminconductor Nanowires / 4.9: |
Sol-Gel DPN / 4.10: |
Soft Patterning of Hard Magnets / 4.11: |
Writing Molecular Recognition / 4.12: |
DPN Writing Protein Recognition Nanostructures / 4.13: |
Patterning Bioconstructions / 4.14: |
Eating Patterns - Enzyme DPN / 4.15: |
Electrostatic DPN / 4.16: |
Electrochemical DPN / 4.17: |
SPM Nano-Electrochemistry / 4.18: |
Beyond DPN - Whittling Nanostructures / 4.19: |
Combi Nano - DPN Combinatorial Libraries / 4.20: |
Nanoplotters / 4.21: |
Nanoblotters / 4.22: |
Scanning Probe Contact Printing (SP-CP) / 4.23: |
Dip Pen Nanolithography Stamp Tip - Beyond DPN CP / 4.24: |
Best of Both Worlds / 4.25: |
The Nanogenie is out of the Bottle / 4.26: |
Nanofood for Thought - Sharper Chemical Patterning Tools / 4.27: |
Nanorod, Nanotube, Nanowire Self-Assembly / Chapter 5: |
Building Block Assembly / 5.1: |
Templating Nanowires / 5.2: |
Modulated Diameter Gold Nanorods / 5.3: |
Modulated Composition Nanorods / 5.4: |
Barcoded Nanorod Orthogonal Self-Assembly / 5.5: |
Self-Assembling Nanorods / 5.6: |
Magnetic Nanorods Bunch Up / 5.7: |
Magnetic Nanorods and Magnetic Nanoclusters / 5.8: |
An Irresistable Attraction for Biomolecules / 5.9: |
Hierarchically Ordered Nanorods / 5.10: |
Nanorod Devices / 5.11: |
Nanotubes from Nanoporous Templates / 5.12: |
Layer-by-Layer Nanotubes from Nanorods / 5.13: |
Synthesis of Single Crystal Semiconductor Nanowires / 5.14: |
Vapor-Liquid-Solid Synthesis of Nanowires / 5.15: |
What Controls Nanowire-Oriented Growth? / 5.16: |
Supercritical Fluid-Liquid-Solid Synthesis / 5.17: |
Nanowire Quantum Size Effects / 5.18: |
Zoo of Nanowire Compositions and Architectures / 5.19: |
Single-Source Precursors / 5.20: |
Manipulating Nanowires / 5.21: |
Crossed Semiconductor Nanowires - Smallest LED / 5.22: |
Nanowire Diodes and Transistors / 5.23: |
Nanowire Sensors / 5.24: |
Catalytic Nanowire Electronics / 5.25: |
Nanowire Heterostructures / 5.26: |
Longitudinal Nanowire Superlattices / 5.27: |
Axial Nanowire Heterostructures / 5.28: |
Nanowires Branch Out / 5.29: |
Coaxially Gated Nanowire Transistor / 5.30: |
Vertical Nanowire Field Effect Transistors / 5.31: |
Integrated Metal-Semiconductor Nanowires - Nanoscale Electrical Contacts / 5.32: |
Photon-Driven Nanowire Laser / 5.33: |
Electrically Driven Nanowire Laser / 5.34: |
Nanowire UV Photodetectors / 5.35: |
Simplifying Complex Nanowires / 5.36: |
Nanowire Casting of Single-Crystal Nanotubes / 5.37: |
Solution-Phase Routes to Nanowires / 5.38: |
Spinning Nanowire Devices / 5.39: |
Hollow Nanofibers by Electrospinning / 5.40: |
Carbon Nanotubes / 5.41: |
Carbon Nanotube Structure and Electrical Properties / 5.42: |
Gone Ballistic / 5.43: |
Carbon Nanotube Nanomechanics / 5.44: |
Carbon Nanotube Chemistry / 5.45: |
Carbon Nanotubes All in a Row / 5.46: |
Carbon Nanotube Photonic Crystal / 5.47: |
Putting Carbon Nanotubes Exactly Where You Want Them / 5.48: |
The Nanowire Pitch Challenge / 5.49: |
Integrated Nanowire Nanoelectronics / 5.50: |
A Small Thought at the End of a Large Chapter / 5.51: |
Nanofood for Thought - Wires, Rods, Tubes, Low Dimensionality / 5.52: |
Nanocluster Self-Assembly / Chapter 6: |
Building-Block Assembly / 6.1: |
When is a Nanocluster a Nanocrystal or Nanoparticle? / 6.2: |
Synthesis of Capped Semiconductor Nanoclusters / 6.3: |
Electrons and Holes in Nanocluster Boxes / 6.4: |
Watching Nanoclusters Grow / 6.5: |
Nanocrystals in Nanobeakers / 6.6: |
Nanocluster Semiconductor Alloys and Beyond / 6.7: |
Nanocluster Phase Transformation / 6.8: |
Capped Gold Nanoclusters - Nanonugget Rush / 6.9: |
Alkanethiolate Capped Nanocluster Diagnostics / 6.10: |
Periodic Table of Capped Nanoclusters / 6.11: |
There's Gold in Them Thar Hills! / 6.12: |
Water-Soluble Nanoclusters / 6.13: |
Capped Nanocluster Architectures and Morphologies / 6.14: |
Alkanethiolate Capped Silver Nanocluster Superlattice / 6.15: |
Crystals of Nanocrystals / 6.16: |
Beyond Crystal of Nanocrystals - Binary Nanocrystal Superlattices / 6.17: |
Capped Magnetic Nanocluster Superlattice - High Density Data Storage Materials / 6.18: |
Alloying Core-Shell Magnetic Nanoclusters / 6.19: |
Soft Lithography of Capped Nanoclusters / 6.20: |
Organizing Nanoclusters by Evaporation / 6.21: |
Electroluminescent Semiconductor Nanoclusters / 6.22: |
Full Color Nanocluster-Polymer Composites / 6.23: |
Capped Semiconductor Nanocluster Meets Biomolecule / 6.24: |
Nanocluster DNA Sensors - Besting the Best / 6.25: |
Semiconductor Nanoclusters Extend and Branch Out / 6.26: |
Branched Nanocluster Solar Cells / 6.27: |
Tetrapod of Tetrapods - Towards Inorganic Dendrimers / 6.28: |
Golden Tips - Making Contact with Nanorods / 6.29: |
Flipping a Nanocluster Switch / 6.30: |
Photochromic Metal Nanoclusters / 6.31: |
Carbon Nanoclusters - Buckyballs / 6.32: |
Building Nanodevices with Buckyballs / 6.33: |
Carbon Catalysis with Buckyball / 6.34: |
Nanofood for Thought - Nanoclusters, Nanocrystals, Quantum Dots, Quantum Size Effects / 6.35: |
Microspheres - Colors from the Beaker / Chapter 7: |
Nature's Photonic Crystals / 7.1: |
Photonic Crystals / 7.2: |
Photonic Semiconductors / 7.3: |
Defects, Defects, Defects / 7.4: |
Computing with Light / 7.5: |
Color Tunability / 7.6: |
Transferring Nature's Photonic Crystal Technology to the Chemistry Laboratory / 7.7: |
Microsphere Building Blocks / 7.8: |
Silica Microspheres / 7.9: |
Latex Microspheres / 7.10: |
Multi-Shell Microspheres / 7.11: |
Basics of Microsphere Self-Assembly / 7.12: |
Microsphere Self-Assembly - Crystals and Films / 7.13: |
Colloidal Crystalline Fluids / 7.14: |
Beyond Face Centered Cubic Packing of Microspheres / 7.15: |
Templates - Confinement and Epitaxy / 7.16: |
Photonic Crystal Fibers / 7.17: |
Photonic Crystal Marbles / 7.18: |
Optical Properties of Colloidal Crystals - Combined Bragg-Snell Laws / 7.19: |
Basic Optical Properties of Colloidal Crystals / 7.20: |
How Perfect is Perfect? / 7.21: |
Cracking Controversy / 7.22: |
Synthesizing a Full Photonic Band Gap / 7.23: |
Writing Defects / 7.24: |
Getting Smart with Planar Defects / 7.25: |
Switching Light with Light / 7.26: |
Internal Light Sources / 7.27: |
Photonic Inks / 7.28: |
Color Oscillator / 7.29: |
Photonic Crystal Sensors / 7.30: |
Colloidal Photonic Crystal Solar Cell / 7.31: |
Thermochromic Colloidal Photonic Crystal Switch / 7.32: |
Liquid Crystal Photonic Crystal / 7.33: |
Encrypted Colloidal Crystals / 7.34: |
Gazing into the Photonic Crystal Ball / 7.35: |
Nanofood for Thought - Colloidal Assembly, Colloidal Crystals, Colloidal Crystal Devices, Structural Color / 7.36: |
Microporous and Mesoporous Materials from Soft Building Blocks / Chapter 8: |
Escape from the Zeolite Prison / 8.1: |
A Periodic Table of Materials Filled with Holes / 8.2: |
Modular Self-Assembly of Microporous Materials / 8.3: |
Hydrogen Storage Coordination Frameworks / 8.4: |
Overview and Prospects of Microporous Materials / 8.5: |
Mesoscale Soft Building Blocks / 8.6: |
Micelle Versus Liquid Crystal Templating Paradox / 8.7: |
Designing Function into Mesoporous Materials / 8.8: |
Tuning Length Scales / 8.9: |
Mesostructure and Dimensionality / 8.10: |
Mesocomposition - Nature of Precursors / 8.11: |
Mesotexture / 8.12: |
Periodic Mesoporous Silica-Polymer Hybrids / 8.13: |
Guests in Mesopores / 8.14: |
Capped Nanocluster Meets Surfactant Mesophase / 8.15: |
Marking Time in Mesostructured Silica - New Approach to Optical Data Storage / 8.16: |
Sidearm Mesofunctionalization / 8.17: |
Organics in the Backbone / 8.18: |
Mesomorphology - Films, Interfaces, Mesoepitaxy / 8.19: |
Stand Up and Be Counted / 8.20: |
Mesomorphology - Spheres, Other Shapes / 8.21: |
Mesomorphology - Patterned Films, Soft Lithography, Micromolding / 8.22: |
Mesomorphology - Morphosynthesis of Curved Form / 8.23: |
Chiral Surfactant Micelles - Chiral Mesoporous Silica / 8.24: |
Mesopore Replication / 8.25: |
Mesochemistry and Topological Defects / 8.26: |
Mesochemistry - Synthesis in "Intermediate" Dimensions / 8.27: |
Nanofood for Thought - Soft Blocks Template Hard Precursors, Holey Materials / 8.28: |
Self-Assembling Block Copolymers / Chapter 9: |
Polymers, Polymers Everywhere in Nanochemistry / 9.1: |
Block Copolymer Self-Assembly - Chip Off the Old Block / 9.2: |
Nanostructured Ceramics / 9.3: |
Nano-objects / 9.4: |
Block Copolymer Thin Films / 9.5: |
Electrical Ordering / 9.6: |
Spatial Confinement of Block Copolymers / 9.7: |
Nanoepitaxy / 9.8: |
Block Copolymer Lithography / 9.9: |
Decorating Block Copolymers / 9.10: |
A Case of Wettability / 9.11: |
Nanowires from Block Copolymers / 9.12: |
Making Micelles / 9.13: |
Assembling Inorganic Polymers / 9.14: |
Harnessing Rigid Rods / 9.15: |
Supramolecular Assemblies / 9.16: |
Supramolecular Mushrooms / 9.17: |
Structural Color from Lightscale Block Copolymers / 9.18: |
Block Copolypeptides / 9.19: |
Block Copolymer Biofactories / 9.20: |
Nanofood for Thought - Block Copolymer Self-Assembling Nanostructures / 9.21: |
Biomaterials and Bioinspiration / Chapter 10: |
Nature did it First / 10.1: |
To Mimic or to Use? / 10.2: |
Faux Fossils / 10.3: |
Nature's Siliceous Sculptures / 10.4: |
Ancient to Modern Synthetic Morphology / 10.5: |
Biomimicry / 10.6: |
Biomineralization and Biomimicry Analogies / 10.7: |
Learning from Nature / 10.8: |
Viral Cage Directed Synthesis of Nanoclusters / 10.9: |
Viruses that Glitter / 10.10: |
Polynucleotide Directed Nanocluster Assembly / 10.11: |
DNA Coded Nanocluster Chains / 10.12: |
Building with DNA / 10.13: |
Bacteria Directed Materials Self-Assembly / 10.14: |
Using a Virus that is Benign, to Align / 10.15: |
Magnetic Spider Silk / 10.16: |
Protein S-Layer Masks / 10.17: |
Morphosynthesis - Inorganic Materials with Complex Form / 10.18: |
Echinoderm vs. Block Copolymers / 10.19: |
Fishy Top-Down Photonic Crystals / 10.20: |
Aluminophosphates Shape Up / 10.21: |
Better Bones Through Chemistry / 10.22: |
Mineralizing Nanofibers / 10.23: |
Biological Lessons in Materials Design / 10.24: |
Surface Binding Through Directed Evolution / 10.25: |
Nanowire Evolution / 10.26: |
Biomolecular Motors - Nanomachines Everywhere / 10.27: |
How Biomotors Work / 10.28: |
Kinesin - Walk Along / 10.29: |
ATPase - Biomotor Nanopropellors / 10.30: |
(Bio)Inspiration / 10.31: |
Nanofood for Thought - Organic Matrix, Biomineralization, Biomimetics, Bioinspiration / 10.32: |
Self-Assembly of Large Building Blocks / Chapter 11: |
Self-assembling Supra-micron Shapes / 11.1: |
Synthesis Using the "Capillary Bond" / 11.2: |
Crystallizing Large Polyhedral-Shaped Building Blocks / 11.3: |
Self-Assembling 2D and 3D Electrical Circuits and Devices / 11.4: |
Crystallizing Micron-Sized Planar Building Blocks / 11.5: |
Polyhedra with Patterned Faces that Autoconstruct / 11.6: |
Large Sphere Building Blocks Self-Assemble into 3D Crystals / 11.7: |
Synthetic MEMS? / 11.8: |
Magnetic Self-Assembly / 11.9: |
Dynamic Self-Assembly / 11.10: |
Autonomous Self-Assembly / 11.11: |
Self-Assembly and Synthetic Life / 11.12: |
Nanofood for Thought - Static and Dynamic, Capillary Bond, Shape Assembly / 11.13: |
Nano and Beyond / Chapter 12: |
Assembling the Future / 12.1: |
Microfluidic Computing / 12.2: |
Fuel Cells - Hold the Membrane / 12.3: |
Curved Prints / 12.4: |
Beating the Ink Diffusion Dilemma / 12.5: |
Tip of the Pyramid / 12.6: |
Biosensing Membranes / 12.7: |
Crossing Nanowires / 12.8: |
Complete Crystallographic Control / 12.9: |
Down to the Wire / 12.10: |
Shielded Nanowires / 12.11: |
Writing 3D Nanofluidic and Nanophotonic Networks / 12.12: |
Break-and-Glue Transistor Assembly / 12.13: |
Turning Nanostructures Inside-out / 12.14: |
Confining Spheres / 12.15: |
Escape from the Silica and Polystyrene Prison / 12.16: |
Smart Dust / 12.17: |
Light Writing for Light Guiding / 12.18: |
Nanoring Around the Collar / 12.19: |
A Meso Rubbed Right / 12.20: |
Fungus with the Midas Touch / 12.21: |
Self-assembled Electronics / 12.22: |
Gears Sink Their Teeth into the Interface / 12.23: |
Materials Retro-assembly / 12.24: |
Matter that Matters - Materials of the "Next Kind" / 12.25: |
Nanofood for Thought - Nano Potpourri / 12.26: |
Nanochemistry Nanolabs / Chapter 13: |
Origin of the Term "Self-Assembly" / Appendix A: |
Cytotoxicity of Nanoparticles / Appendix B: |
Walking Macromolecules Through Colloidal Crystals / Appendix C: |
Patterning Nanochannel Alumina Membranes With Single Channel Resolution / Appendix D: |
Muscle Powered Nanomachines / Appendix E: |
Bacteria Power / Appendix F: |
Chemically Driven Nanorod Motors / Appendix G: |
Subject Index |