Chapter 1 Non-Conventional Methods for Patterning Polymer Surfaces
Carlos Drummond and Juan Rodríguez-Hernández
Chapter 2 From Holes to Drops to Toroids: Conditions for the transcription of surface patterns into three-dimensional morphologies via rim instabilities in the course of dewetting
Samer Al Akhrass, Laurent Vonna, Günter Reiter
Chapter 3 Directing Convection to Pattern Thin Polymer Films: Coffee Rings
Bo Li, James, Iocozzia, and Zhiqun Lin
Chapter 4 Nanopatterns produced by directed self-assembly in block copolymer thin films
Virginie Ponsinet
Chapter 5 Nanostructured interfaces by surface segregation of block copolymers
Antoine Bousquet and Juan Rodríguez-Hernandez
Chapter 6 Template Guided Structuration of Polymer Films
David Coffey and Joseph Wei
Chapter 7 Electrohydrodynamic Lithography of Functional Soft Materials for Advanced Applications
Pola Goldberg Oppenheimer
Chapter 8 Elastic Instability and Surface Wrinkling
Pascal Damman
Chapter 9 Reaction-Diffusion Dynamics Induced Surface Instabilities
Murat Guvendiren
Chapter 10 Breath Figures: fabrication of honeycomb porous films induced by Marangoni instabilities
Alexandra Muñoz-Bonilla, Maud Save, Laurent Billon and Juan Rodríguez-Hernández
Chapter 11 Spontaneous Structuration of Hydrophobic Polymer Surfaces in Contact with Salt Solutions
Igor Siretanu, Hassan Saadaoui, Jean-Paul Chapel and Carlos Drummond
Chapter 12 Nanobubble-Assisted Nanopatterning
Pavel Janda
Chapter 13 Future trends of unconventional methods in polymer surface patterning.
Carlos Drummond and Juan Rodríguez-Hernández
Dr. Juan Rodríguez-Hernández is tenured scientist at the Instituto de Ciencia y Tecnologia de Polimeros (Madrid-Spain) since 2008. He obtained his PhD from the Max-Planck Institute for Polymer Research in Mainz, Germany in 2003. He then joined the Laboratoire de Chimie des Polymères Organiques in Bordeaux France as post-doc and later as research fellow until 2008. His research interests include micro/nanostructuration of polymeric surfaces, the preparation of smart surfaces and the control of the interaction of surfaces with microorganisms.
Dr. Carlos Drummond received his Ph.D. in 1999 from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and has been a CNRS research fellow since 2003. His research interests include surface forces, polymer surfaces, responsive functional surfaces and physical chemistry of nano-carbonaceous materials.
Pattern formation is a fascinating and challenging aspect in polymer science. This book describes a number of unconventional approaches developed to control the morphology of polymer surfaces and materials, from random or simple patterns to complex structures. Specialists provide an up-to-date and complete overview of each technique in their respective field.