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Informationen zum Autor Ashutosh Tiwari is Chairman and Managing Director of Tekidag AB; Group Leader, Advanced Materials and Biodevices at the world premier Biosensors and Bioelectronics Centre at IFM, Linköping University; Editor-in-Chief, Advanced Materials Letters and Advanced Materials Reviews ; Secretary General, International Association of Advanced Materials; a materials chemist and docent in the Applied Physics with the specialization of Biosensors and Bioelectronics from Linköping University, Sweden. He has more than 400 publications in the field of materials science and nanotechnology with h-index of 30 and has edited/authored over 25 books on advanced materials and technology. Hirak K Patra completed his PhD in 2007 on "Synthetic Nanoforms as Designer and Explorer for Cellular Events" at the University of Calcutta. He moved to the Applied Physics Division of Linköping University with the prestigious Integrative Regenerative Medicine fellowship at Sweden to work with the Prof. Anthony Turner at his Biosensors and Bioelectronics Center. He has published 17 articles in top journals, 4 patents, and has been honored with several 'Young Scientist' awards globally. Xiumei Wang is an Associate Professor of Biomaterials at Southeast University, China. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung Advanced Material Interfaces is a state-of-the-art look at innovative methodologies and strategies adopted for interfaces and their applications. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 Phenomena in Liquid-Crystalline Polymer Phases for Obtaining Multifunctional Materials 37 M. Giamberini and G. Malucelli 2.1 Introduction 37 2.2 Amphiphilic Self-Assembled LCPs 41 2.3 Self-Assembled LCPs Through External Stimuli 44 2.4 Supramolecular Self-Assembled LCPs 48 2.5 Self-Assembled LCPs Through Surface Effects 54 2.6 Conclusions and Perspectives 57 References 59 3 Scanning Probe Microscopy of Functional Materials Surfaces and Interfaces 63 Pankaj Sharma and Jan Seidel 3.1 Introduction 64 3.2 Scanning Probe Microscopy Approach 65 3.2.1 Piezoresponse Force Mic...