Materials scientists are often faced with the problem of modifying surfaces of objects, yet keeping their shape and properties. This book provides a detailed survey on the new technology of adsorption from solution for the fabrication of molecularly ordered multicomposite films in order to replace and expand on the well known Langmuir-Blodgett technology and to open the field of molecular self-assembly to materials and biosciences. The book is aimed at scientists who want to integrate several different functional entities in a single device. To this audience it presents the technique of layer-by-layer assembly as today's most powerful key technology, which is low cost, solution based and very robust. It is already beginning to make the transition from academic research into industrial mass production.
"...highly recommended to anyone interested in the field...and to scientists and researchers active in materials development..." (
Polymer News)
"...the first book that updates the advances in the multilayer thin–film technology and will remain as the most important book in the field..." (Pharmaceutical Research, Vol. 20, No. 9, September 2003)
"Each chapter contains pertinent information and discussions completed with a rich and up–to–dated reference; generally, all chapters are well written, the editors and the authors have tried to avoid overlapping of information. ... This multi–authored monograph offers compact and up–to–date information for the beginners, and also for the scientists working in this exciting domain." (Adrian Carpov, Cellulose Chemistry and Technology, Ed. by the Romanian Academy, January–April, 39/2005)
"...highly recommended to anyone interested in the field...and to scientists and researchers active in materials development..." (
Polymer News)
"...the first book that updates the advances in the multilayer thin–film technology and will remain as the most important book in the field..." (Pharmaceutical Research, Vol. 20, No. 9, September 2003)