This book attempts to provide insight into the mixing, hydration and annealing of self-assembled, multilayered films based on precise counting of their doping ions and water content. Several practical applications are then explained in light of this theory. Polyelectrolyte multilayers are ideal mixes forming amorphous films. While the properties of ordered organic monomolecular layers such as liquid crystals or amphiphiles can be dominated by the nature of a few defects, in disordered systems the overall amorphous nature not only defines their properties but also makes the materials less...