Soft matter gradient surfaces: methods and applications

This book helps to bridge many soft material fields (materials science, chemistry, biomaterials) and introduces scientists not familiar with gradient substrates to new exciting opportunities for their work. Soft matter gradient surfaces have played a pivotal role in numerous aspects of materials research. They have facilitated fast screening of physico-chemical phenomena, enabled fabrication of material structures that would have been difficult to manufacture otherwise, acted as "recording media" for monitoring a given physico-chemico-biological process, and played a key role.

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TRAITEMENT SOMMAIRE.

Front Matter -- Gradient Libraries: Harnessing a Ubiquitous Phenomenon to Accelerate Experimentation / Michael J Fasolka -- Classification of Key Attributes of Soft Material Gradients / Jan Genzer, Rajendra R Bhat -- Discovery and Optimization of Sensing Materials Using Discrete and Gradient Arrays / Radislav A Potyrailo -- Colliding Self-Assembly Waves in Organosilane Monolayers / Kirill Efimenko, Ali E Ozam, Jan Genzer, Daniel A Fischer, Fredrick R Phelan, Jack F Douglas -- Orientational Anchoring of Liquid Crystals on Surfaces Presenting Continuous Gradients in Composition / Jugal K Gupta, Kirill Efimenko, Daniel A Fischer, Jan Genzer, Nicholas L Abbott -- Continuous Infusion Microchannel Approach to Generate Composition Gradients from Viscous Polymer Solutions / Pratyay Basak, Pedro Zapata, Keith Reed, Ismael Gomez, J Carson Meredith -- Gradient Assembly of Complex Surfaces for Sensing, Fabrication, and High Throughput Analysis / Andrew C Hillier -- Making Gradient Patterns by Electron-Beam Chemical Lithography with Monomolecular Resists / Nirmalya Ballav, Andreas Terfort, Michael Zharnikov -- Electrochemical Mapping for Polymer Chemical and Physical Gradients / Roger H Terril…