Materials Nanoarchitectonics : From Integrated Molecular Systems to Advanced Devices

Materials Nanoarchitectonics: From Integrated Molecular Systems to Advanced Devices provides the latest information on the design and molecular manipulation of self‐organized hierarchically structured systems using tailor-made nanoscale materials as structural and functional units. The book is organized into three main sections that focus on molecular design of building blocks and hybrid materials, formation of nanostructures, and applications and devices. Bringing together emerging materials, synthetic aspects, nanostructure strategies, and applications, the book aims to support further progress, by offering different perspectives and a strong interdisciplinary approach to this rapidly growing area of innovation.

This is an extremely valuable resource for researchers, advanced students, and scientists in industry, with an interest in nanoarchitectonics, nanostructures, and nanomaterials, or across the areas of nanotechnology, chemistry, surface science, polymer science, electrical engineering, physics, chemical engineering, and materials science.

• Offers a nanoarchitectonic perspective on emerging fields, such as metal-organic frameworks, porous polymer materials, or biomimetic nanostructures
• Discusses different approaches to utilizing "soft chemistry" as a source for hierarchically organized materials
• Offers an interdisciplinary approach to the design and construction of integrated chemical nano systems
• Discusses novel approaches towards the creation of complex multiscale architectures

Katsuhiko Ariga has been working on supramolecular chemistry especially related with self-assembly processes, ultrathin films and molecular recognitions. Accomplishments in his researches contribute significantly developments of biomemetic systems as well as physicochemical understanding on interfacial phenomena. Especially, pioneer researches of layer-layer supramolecular assembly have been highly evaluated, and he is also recognized as an authority of supramolecular recognition at the interfaces. Total citation of entire researches exceeded 7000 times. Now, his research team is working on frontier researches for supramolecular materials through entire bottom-up process.

Omar Azzaroni is a principal investigator and a professor of physical chemistry at INIFTA – CONICET, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He studied chemistry at the Universidad Nacional de La Plata (UNLP), Buenos Ares, Argentina, receiving his PhD in 2004. His postdoctoral studies were carried out at the University of Cambridge, UK, between 2004 and 2006 and the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research, Germany, in 2007. He was then appointed as Max Planck Partner Group leader from 2009 until 2013. Dr. Azzaroni served as Vice Director of the Instituto de Investigaciones Fisicoquimicas Teóricas y Aplicadas, INIFTA, between 2012 and 2015, and is currently a fellow of CONICET, and head of the Soft Matter Laboratory of INIFTA. He has also been Adjunct Professor of Physical Chemistry at UNLP since 2009. His research interests include nanostructured hybrid interfaces, supra and macromolecular materials science, soft nanotechnology, and nanoarchitectonics.